>>1364576My local laws also say you must be allowed to take your bike on a train or ferry, instead of a normal luggage bag, and if the rail company denies you it they have to give you a bit of money.
A local law in a nearby city says that bikes "must use municpal parking or parking meters."
Most parks here forbid you from riding through them (but they don't actually post signs at every entrance displaying this so it's hard to tell if stumbling across them at a backway as a shortcut).
Pedestrians nowadays generally don't move until you're almost on top of them, even if ringing a bell. Not just the ones with airpods in either, I have no idea why they don't even look around when the bell rings. That + in the more developed areasm the normal assortment of objects on the sidewalk outside of the SHOP door-zone including trees, garbage cans, lampposts, signs, benches, and uneven sidewalk slabs means that if you were to ride at an appreciable speed on the sidewalk it's more risky than a MTB trail. In residental spaces the sidewalk frequently doesn't follow the same grade as the road meaning you can fall a good extra 1-3ft off it, has bigger trees that it weaves around and peoples' curbside garbage and cans that block the way at times, puts you in the blind spots of driveways more often due to hedges and fences, often ends or turns into a lazy broken asphalt-pour, in the green months has only got the greenery pared back just enough for one pedestrian and not someone with the added height and width of a bike...
It's safer to ride in the road, be aware of the cars and, when appropriate, pull over to allow traffic to flow if the person behind you is a chicken shit who is stalling traffic because they won't pass you.
