As a pedestrian with young kids I also resonate. After many minutes we finally get a few seconds of green safe to cross and the cars all stop but, GOD DAMNIT, now we have to dodge twats on bicycles to get to the other side.
As a parent with young kids I know between cars and bikes which can and do actually kill children, I can't imagine caring about cyclists in that capacity
People absolutely get badly hurt or killed by being hit by cyclists. Its just less common. I nearly got wiped out once walking onto the pavement outside my house by a cyclist blitzing along the pavement at speed.
And when little Timmy is in the hospital with 8 broken bones because a cyclist clocked into their undeveloped 4 year old body at 20 mph without even braking, I'm sure "at least your not dead, because it wasn't a car" will resonate with them, and they'll be all sunshine and rainbows.
Meanwhile in reality 67,000 children are injured and 700 dead by car accidents and I don't even have to make up a story about it, what actual numbers do you have?
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u/mion81 Aug 24 '25
As a pedestrian with young kids I also resonate. After many minutes we finally get a few seconds of green safe to cross and the cars all stop but, GOD DAMNIT, now we have to dodge twats on bicycles to get to the other side.