Share the road
Reader Junji wants to bring to our attention the proposed laws before the Diet that will increase the number of cyclists on the sidewalk and restrict the number of roads that can be used by cyclists.
"This is bad legislation that simply ignores the broader question of road safety and education and dumps everything onto the ordinary citizens. It is known that Japanese laws on cycling are in a large gray area, and due to the lack of education, fatalities are very high," he says.
The answer, he believes, is not to force everyone onto the sidewalk.