A road parallel bike path and a sidewalk are different in only one way. The former has either signs declaring it a bike path or there is a village-city map declaring it a bike path. Physically, it's no different from a sidewalk. In fact, where I live, there is a map from the village government that declares some sidewalks to be bike paths. This is the only way to know which sidewalks are bike paths (legal for adults to ride on) and which ones are just sidewalks (illegal for adults to ride on).
So, fix the problem.
Do they have over and underpbuttes for every road and drive way they cross? If not, they are sidewalks. If so, then your local government is foolish and they should have just improved the road.
Good for them. I am sure they don't go faster than 8mph. I hit 30mph rutinely.
At 30mph they would.
No, it's some timid driver lacking the skills to execute a simple pbutting move that is blocking your process.
I've had this happen a couple times when riding on two lane roads. I've done everything possible to encourage the pbutt except dive off the road and crash and the driver still refuses to pbutt. When I've been driving I've always been able to pbutt the same bicyclist without any issue at all.
A bicyclist simply cannot be held responsible for the lack of driving skill of a particular driver.
Let me guess, when these same timid drivers need a clear road for 2 miles to make a left turn or proceed from a stop sign you don't have any issue with it. You just wait. Or at best, you realize the driver is skilless, but still accept it. But when the same driver who is lacking skill needs the same huge amount of clearance to pbutt a bicyclist you blame the bicyclist.
