An electric with a solid steel external roll cage on all 8 corners of the vehicle as well as solid rubber airless tires would make it safe even with the massive trucks driving around. (batteries can make them very bottom heavy.) A truck that hit it would only damage itself.

Maybe we can convince them to spring for ice cleats for everyone; ounce of prevention and all that.

Please tell me they're not trying out 'no salt on the sidewalks' again. Really don't need 2" of ice for 3 months everywhere I walk.

This is the way.

How hard would it have been for us to post a patrol car and 1 officer at either end of the only street we closed? :\

Kids are allowed to drive on the sidewalk until the age of 16, are they any less endangering pedestrians? No. Am I more danger to a pedestrian than a car is to me? Certainly not. Would I rather just have protected bike lanes so I didn't have to choose, certainly, but that is not the city I live in.

And drive on sidewalks.