No bicycle lock is safe, I said yesterday. It’s a mere finger when the dyke itself needs reconstruction.

A pitiful dearth of safe cycling routes, in most of North America, is the oldest, and most obvious, of the systemic disregards for micro-mobility.

Similar neglect is seen in other aspects of cycling on this continent. There are almost no undercover police officers tackling cars’ threats against cyclists; no bait bikes for a rampant, petty theft that effectively goes unpunished–and for which they have high stat’s.

Absence of proper anchors is a less noticed shortcoming, due to an assortment of ‘solutions’ more perfunctory than worthy of prize for form and function. As in much of cycling life out here, the Canadian and American cyclists are so conditioned by their carcentric upbringing that any ring-and-post et al is seen as progress, stifling any imagination for more.