[tptacek]

My kids are in college right now, but everyone else in Oak Park seems to, as did everyone in Ann Arbor, as did --- to an even greater extent --- every family --- every family; it would have been extremely weird not to be allowed to ride your bike in the streets in the 1980s --- in the south side of Chicago when I was growing up, at a time when traffic fatalities were more than twice as high as they are now. I don't think your argument is rooted in facts.

It is in fact illegal in Chicago to ride your bike on the sidewalk. Your contention would have to be that children have simply ceased using bicycles, which is obviously not true.

[pvg]

It is in fact illegal in Chicago to ride your bike on the sidewalk.

How has this thread lasted so long without a single reference to the seminal work of Campbell, Algar et al[1] on the topic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rroZv3rFEoU

[tptacek]

I thought about it but I've never once seen someone in Chicagoland play hockey in the street. I just can't in good conscience cite it.