Family on wheels

More recent surveys use ER data. Sorry. Wrong. Bike-related injuries are still a very small fractional percent of the mayhem due to motor vehicles.

Even if the undercounting is by a factor of ten, this is still true.

http://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths/#45-roshard-charles

Roshard Charles was killed by a double-parked minivan backing up on Empire Boulevard. Charles was crossing mid-block with his mother. Police said the driver initially fled the scene, but later returned and was arrested.

Maybe the 5 year old stumbled cause he was drunk?

http://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths/#11-cooper-stock

Cooper Stock and his father Richard Stock were hit by cab driver Koffi Komlani in a crosswalk. Richard Stock suffered a leg injury and Cooper Stock died at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital.

Maybe that child should have been wearing a helmet? I dunno.

One of the largest classes of pedestrian fatalities are drunk our drugged pedestrians who wander into traffic.

Got a source for that? And no, your mental gymnastics fantasy-fiction doesn't count.

So much speculation, very little substance.

You would be the first to excuse the driver for having hit them, right?

Central Park has a serious problem with people walking in the cycling only lanes. This is illegal, and they have their own lanes just next to use more safely. Yet, they do it, just like idiots in Boston will scold cyclists about "running red lights" because they were paying more attention to their iThingy than to the Red Hand of STOP, or the fact that said cyclist has a green light.

One of those pedestrians was crossing against a signal, the other was in the cycletrack.

You aren't addressing that it is an issue, because you have never been there, never done that, and have no interest in actually finding out for yourself, as that might require some effort other than pushing a gas pedal.

Just stay in Arlington where people know that the wire-haired aggro brat revving his engine and laying on the horn because there is no room to pass a cyclist on a sleepy side street is just some pathetic frustrated crank.

of the barrel like hapless ants in the struggles of elephantine contenders.

But there is a lot to be said for recovering lost cognitive skills known to those who made the Stonehenge. I basically treat getting around in a manic city as a kind of high adventure with perils and pitfalls to handle in stride keeping belligerence to a minimum to save it for those special situations when some ditz nearly flattens me..

Bahhhhh!

Crosswalk != right of way if there is a light.

Go back to Sesame Street and learn how to navigate a city.

And when I'm cycling around, sometimes, I deal with all sorts of fun behavior by you walkers.

You cut off bikes and cars when you step into crosswalks with your phones buried in your face.

You step into the road and jay-walk like a distracted 5 year old in a toy story, and you expect the cyclist (that's me) to swerve out of the way or else hit you.

Sometimes, you'll extend the courtesy of throwing a bottle or spitting on me.

I have news for you - I'm aware that you're there, I know your stepping into my path, and I don't even feel bad about doing it. I have the right of way and you'd better fucking believe that I'm not going to yield to you.

You only cross when and where its legal, so slow down, look up from the phone and wait. I ain't fucking moving out of your way.

See how hostile and ignorant that thought process is when painted with a different agenda?

Hell, I actually feel apprehensive when I come to crosswalks now with a group of lemmings waiting. I wonder if anyone of them will step out into the road, which causes the other lemmings to cross too against the signal, and cross my path.

Pick your head up, cross when its legal to and know that I'm not out to hit you and cause problems, even though you seem to hell bent on causing problems and flaunting the law.

I bike because I have bad knees - much better on them than walking. I realize that I can't speak for everyone, but there are days when walking is difficult, and biking is possible for me. I was told at one point by one orthopod that I shouldn't bike or walk or do a lot of things except swim, but the orthopedic surgeons I worked for previously told me to find a new doctor.

For those with handicap placards and plates, I don't begrudge them their motor vehicles - in fact, my late father used to crow about how easy it was to get into Downtown Portland pretty much anytime and use his, because so many people used transit and biked. The less needless driving there is, the more room there is for people who need to.

As for "pedestrians and parks", by that logic, we should turn a lane of the pike into a cycle track, because "vehicles and roadways". No?