Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Bob_McBob]

That's a straw man people use to shut down cycling safety advocates. Nobody is trying to say bad cyclists can't harm other people; they absolutely do harm others, to the point of a small number of fatal collisions with pedestrians and other cyclists every year. The fact of the matter is the relative risk of significant injury or death for a bike vs. a car is so widely disproportionate that the loud whining about cyclists every time dangerous driving is mentioned is a huge distraction from the real issue. The cyclist who pisses you off doing an Idaho stop or riding on the sidewalk isn't in any way equivalent to a speeding driver on their phone, but plenty of people demand police resources be equally divided between the two just because they don't like cyclists.