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Originally Posted by Drybrain
The primary way my I get my two-year-old around town for short/medium trips is bike, and it will be until late fall. He loves it; way more to see and experience than in a car, and trips are almost as quick (on the peninsula). In inclement weather, or when the weather gets truly cold, we’ll switch to bus/car. But nine of 12 months it’s largely bike. (And I still bike myself those other three months.)
One of my most important priorities, transportation-wise, is to continue building our safe cycling infrastructure so that A: those bike trips with my son are safer for both of us (there are places I feel confident cycling alone that I wouldn’t take him) and b: so that when he’s older, my child will be able to navigate the streets of his own neighbourhood on foot and by bike more safely than kids today can. The last thing I want is for him to grow up in the middle of a city centre, yet find every inch of road space around him dedicated to maximizing car throughput. That’s not anti-driver; I drive too. But in a crowded city centre, the ability of drivers to zoom around as efficiently (or as is often the case, as recklessly) as possible should be subservient to safety, comfort and neighbourhood quality of life.
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I have not seen any method of hauling a 2 year-old around on a bike that I would consider "safe". Some of them seem rather terrifying, actually.
In reality, I see far more cyclists zooming around recklessly, blowing through intersections, and ignoring the rules of the road, than I do vehicles. It seems impossible for cyclists to respect the code of the road. We live in a city, and there are certain things regarding traffic volume and "quality of life" things that come with that for good or bad. I know there are retirement villages in warmer climes where the main form of transportation is by electric golf cart on pathways, but I would not choose that for me and I don't think most people would either. Some neighborhood residents seem to think their neighborhood should be like that though, which is absurd on its face.
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