>>>and lets wear them while doing dangerous stuff like walking
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>>>http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/jpeds.html
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>>How about in the states, we start by building sidewalks first? Most schools in North Carolina do not even have sidewalks between them and the local neighborhoods and children that live withing a 2.5 mile radius have to walk. It has always bothered me and letters to the editors of newspapers and local congressman have been of no use.
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>One of the things that made us decide to move to Virginia Beach was that it has sidewalks... mostly. I know a few places in the neighborhood where they just stop... or rather, if you're coming from the other direction, start out of the green. But generally they exist, and since they usually aren't used much, it's actually quite a nice place to use a bicycle for transportation - except that everything is a bit too far even for a bike. In Charlottesville, you'd have streets where about 40% of the lots had sidewalks. And there was a grandfather clause, that you had to build one only for new buildings, so closer to downtown you got, the worse it was. Then downtown itself was purely pedestrian (one of those designated as "historic"), but you actually had to drive or ride to there; you couldn't really walk to there.

In Illinois no one over the age of 11 is supposed to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk.