Today I rode to work through a residential area which has a 15 MPH speed limit. The motorists were obeying the speed limit, so I was travelling at about the same speed as the motor vehicle traffic. Ahead of me was a motorcycle and behind me was an automobile. As we approached a woman walking her dog on the sidewalk along the street, I watched her reaction to the traffic. It appeared that she didn’t even notice the motorcycle rider ahead of me, but when I came alongside she smiled and said “good morning”. It occurred to me then that pedestrians probably see motorcycles as “traffic”, but they see bicyclists as “people”.
Quite a difference I would say.
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