If people are bad at driving, then you need more non-driving options so they don’t have to drive.

I’ve got a friend in the Toronto area who is a terrible driver, knows she’s a terrible driver, and is insured at terrible driver rates; but there’s just no practical alternative for her.

Stop signs should generally be replaced with roundabouts and speed tables. Stop signs that get ignored are a great example of design not matching needs.

There an more refurbishing options for improvements, and you can use them to incrementally test before the next resurface.

Jersey barriers, concrete planters, surface treatments/paint, flexposts, and snow clearing width reduction pip to mind.

I agree, I’m just curious if you see more sidewalk riding because the roads are so unsafe, thus making the adjacent sidewalks unsafe, thus making sidewalks appear more unsafe than they really are.

It’s not an easy factor to tease out of the data; and frankly it’s a discussion that should be avoided because it pits cyclists and pedestrians into discussion about the sliver of space left over when tons is already given to motorists.

people more often ride against traffic on the sidewalk than on the road

There may also be a case of taking the sidewalknis done on my risky roads, that is difficult to control for.

In my case I ride one section against the road on the sidewalk because the alternative is to cross a road of 80kph+ traffic twice in 600m with a toddler. In the other direction we ride on the road because we don’t have to cross it, and the traffic is usually only doing 10 kph.

How so?

On a bicycle in Ontario I can get stopped roadside and forced to prove I can stop from 20kph in 30m on flat pavement, have a working head and tail light, have two separate functioning brake systems, have a bell, and have reflectors on forks.

There’s another tranche of rules for ebikes.

No similar rules exist for cars, with maybe the exception of the stereotypical busted tail light.

Here the charge is nothing.

https://www.thewhig.com/feature/kingston-ontario-cyclist-fatality-police

Bike fits on a train much easier than a car at least.

The S in IoT stands for security

Removing parking minimums does not stop people building parking if they want it.

I mean, look at the signs, it’s the best value for speeding!

We have these on the Ontariobhan. They do nothing