>> Bicyclists drive met nuts, I wish they could use the sidewalks - would be safer for everyone.
Forcing bikes onto sidewalks when they are designed to ride on the road is an interesting POV for a libertarian.
I ride the sidewalks (slowly) when I’m riding on the main streets downtown. Buses are really big and heavy compared to me. The sidewalks are the shoulder downtown.
Who said anything about force? I wish they could use the sidewalks...in my area they are forced to not use them.
I live in a car and bike busy town, there are roads that are way too narrow and pot hole riddled...cars swerving to miss bikes on the roadways when perfect safe sidewalks are left empty. I won't ride a bike near town because it's too dangerous - would be great to utilize the sidewalk....but alas, it's against the law....
The libertarian philsophy was summed up by Will Rogers as "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose." Their "right" to indulge in their hobby ends when their activities impinge on the rights of others to use the roads in the manner for which they were designed.
I can get a vehicle that is designed to go 250MPH (if I want to spend a ridiculous amount of money). That it was designed to go that fast doesn't give me the right to run it that fast disregarding other users of a common resource - the road.