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I am not saying that people should ride on pavements, I am saying that you complaining about cyclists not following the same rules as cars when they are on the road is based on fallacious reasoning.

To your straw man, as people have pointed, out there are many mixed use pathways where pedestrians and bicycles share the same path. In rural Germany it is incredibly common for cyclists and pedestrians to share a single path. Your argument that bicycles and pedestrians sharing a single path leads to unacceptable risk to pedestrians is simply not true.

Some numbers:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...

Per passenger mile:

~200 pedestrians killed by cars

~4 pedestrians killed by bicycles

Please don’t make assumption about my behaviour. I ride in the road and not on the pavement, but I regularly have a near-death experience.

In Germany and across norther Europe, bicycles and pedestrians share a (slightly) segregated space on the pavement and cars are in a completely separate space.