In article ,
Frank Krygowski writes in part:

Cycling is a reasonably safe activity on paths or on streets.

Here's a rhetorical question:

Is cycling a reasonably safe activity that can be made more
dangerous, or is it a somewhat dangerous activity that can
be made more safe?

I assure you, I'm not posing this question glibly, even
though I admit to it's rhetorical nature.

I have long pondered -- no, downright ~struggled~ with
this question, and have yet to come up with an answer
that satisfies me.

The best answer I've been able to come with is: there's
a huge difference between being able to make a bike go
without falling off, and being able to safely wend one's
way among throngs of people in traffic acting like
last-minute Christmas shoppers on the streets & roads
every day.


cheers,
Tom

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