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"Not full of shit at all" should definitely not be winning. I'm all for riding in the street most of the time, but this ignoramus got the law wrong with the general claim that "you can't ride faster than a pedestrian walks."
Furthermore, we don't have all the bike lanes and corridors we need yet, and wont for a couple more decades. Riding on the sidewalk in some places can be a totally safe way of avoiding dangerous traffic without having to go a mile or two out of the way. And it's legal, except downtown.
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Geyser:

"814.410: Unsafe operation of bicycle on sidewalk; penalty.

(1) A person commits the offense of unsafe operation of a bicycle on a sidewalk if the person does any of the following

(b) Operates a bicycle upon a sidewalk and does not give an audible warning before overtaking and passing a pedestrian and does not yield the right of way to all pedestrians on the sidewalk.

and

(d) Operates the bicycle at a speed greater than an ordinary walk when approaching or entering a crosswalk, approaching or crossing a driveway or crossing a curb cut or pedestrian ramp and a motor vehicle is approaching the crosswalk, driveway, curb cut or pedestrian ramp"

If you have to slow down to a walk every time you cross a driveway, you have to slow down to a walk pretty much all the time.

There's no excuse for not knowing the law.
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Yes, I read it. But there are plenty of sidewalks that are not residential and do not have several driveways per block, and the crosswalks or curb cuts are often spaced far enough apart that one needn't slow down to walking speed "pretty much all the time."
I Anon is ranting against bikes being on any sidewalk, period. Thats not what the law says, and this person has no right to insist on that.
4
I have to ride my bike for like two blocks on 82nd to get to my garden plot. Yeah, sorry, but I ain't riding on that road! Yipes! (though I do ride pretty slow when I'm on the sidewalk there)

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