Don't be dissuaded otherwise: When people make "jokes" about bike riders wanting to act like pedestrians or cars when they feel like it, they are expressing a grievance—that cyclists are naughty and entitled rule breakers.
These folks have no idea what it's like to ride a bike on a regular basis in a US city. It often is different in small towns and on quiet roads, but in a big city riders have to act like pedestrians sometimes because they don't feel like dying.
Almost every day in LA, I get to intersections where the only safe, practical way to cross a street is to push a beg button and wait for a walk signal. Almost every day I'm on dangerous high-speed roads with no facilities and I ride on the sidewalk because the road is so hostile.
Don't get me wrong. I have zero desire to use crosswalks and sidewalks. Build me a city where I have a safe place in the road, where people aren't driving highways speeds on roads that aren't highways, and motorists can stop making their dumb pedestrian "jokes" about riders.
Side point. If you follow my feed, you know there's a nationwide problem of motorists parking in bike lanes. It's almost as if they can't decide whether they want to be cars or bikes, eh?
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