"In a a properly designed Traditional City, most people don’t need bicycles." --Energy Bulletin
In southern latitudes, daylight saving has recently ended and commuting cyclists find themselves suddenly plunged into darkness in the early evening. It's around this time every year that Bicycle Victoria rightly reminds riders to
Light Up.
"You sure do like to tailgate people... Right, because it's real important you show up to the nothing you have to do on time." --twitter.com/shitmydadsays
"I've traveled by foot, car, plane, train, boat and on horseback, but nothing comes close to connecting me to places and people the way bicycling does." --Diane Daniel, Ode Magazine
"There are so few things I'd rather do than ride a bike."
It's a sorry state of affairs when kids are hassled for playing in a quiet residential street.
Other than in a nightclub at 4am, where's the only place that a lone young woman would be pointlessly aggressive toward four fit, burly blokes that she didn't know? You guessed it: out on the roads.
Make sure you have a front headlight on your bike--so that you are visible to drivers behind you.
Shared paths sometimes bring walkers and cyclists into conflict. But the answer to the problem is not installation of speed humps.