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so you want to ruin childhood by placing pointless restrictions on bikes?
Riiight, childhood's defined by riding bicycles and not doing so would ruin it... uh-huh. Kids can ride them.all they want in parks and bike lanes, but you want them on the street alongside those dangerous cars? They might have a serious accident... now that would ruin their childhood.
Grownups can ride on roads (if there's no bike lane available) provided the vehicle has a plate and is insured, like any other vehicle. The driver should have the basics of road safety and rules, as any other driver.
Your think of the children take is kinda lame, especially considering most kids these days care more about game consoles that bicycles (which is bad imho).
I currently live in a place where there aren't sidewalks for more than 80% of the roads (heck I've lives in a place that had two roads with sidewalks and only 4 with pavement) treating roads as inherently unsafe is fair only in the context of stupidly large cities. There are still a bunch of cities that have dirt (not gravel) roads and they suit the needs because if there aren't hundreds of people needing to use a road it doesn't need to be able to handle dozens of cars.