Mother in the street, son (who is less than 13 years old, let’s assume) on the sidewalk, riding together, sort of, block after block:
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…Looks to me like this doubles the chance that a driver, say, that bus driver, will turn left or right and strike the bike, or the bike(s) strike the bus.
Yeah, maybe. I’ve never seen this kind of thing before…
That’s very odd, but I’m not sure what else they would do. My daughter is just starting to ride a bike and no way would I let her ride in the streets before she is legally required to. So I take her out on her bike and figure sometime we’ll all go ride in GG Park.