How can Massachusetts cyclists, drivers safely co-exist?

In a high traffic area it’s best to stay on the side walk

Please wear your helmet. Don’t be a brain injury and destroy your beautiful life.

Its very simple. A car hits a bike..car wins.
Bike hits a car..car wins.

Spoiler: they can't

This segment left a lot (A LOT0 on the table. No mention of how traffic calming, road diets, lowering speed limits, protected bike lanes can get us much closer to equilibrium.

Do one for moped.

Short Ans: Use Common Sense + Obey Traffic Rules

Long Ans: Hold everyone accountable. On my daily commutes, I have witnessed cars, bikes, scooters and pedestrians going out of turn or the wrong way. Yes to varying frequencies w/ some more vulnerable than others. But we can’t just point fingers + blame one single group. If I may remind us all that before they made everything car-centric, many more roads were mixed use, and I don’t think we had as much trouble sharing the road + coexisting. A very helpful non-starter change would be setting daily quotas to reduce # of cars on the road.

So as a daily cycle commuter in the Downtown Boston area, I can honestly say, and I know I’m outing myself with this, that no, cars and cyclists can not coexist. Not anymore, and not in a city with some of the most aggressive drivers in the country. The Rules of the Road were written for cars, not bikes. If a cyclist follows the rules, we get injured or killed by a car who’s not. If we don’t follow the rules, we still get injured or killed by cars that don’t. Stoping at most red lights, when you could use that time to get a notable jump on the vehicles next to you, is a death sentence in the form of a rapid right hook.
I’ve been tapped by cars not paying attention, doored several times while riding in bike lanes (including once this month), and even run off the road by overly aggressive drivers with a bone to pick. And don’t even get me started on moped aggression.
Until drivers remember how to get a clear head on their shoulders, cars and bikes can not coexist anymore, and in a city that’s already so congested, while actually having pretty amazing public transport and bike infrastructure, private vehicles truly have no place on the streets anymore. So get off our roads, or GET. OUT.

We can't....they can run lights snd get on tha sidewalk when it benefits them....i hate those lanes snd thise that wanna be on a bike in tha st

No way that’s a lawyer lol

a lot of policies are unethical for convenience. bags on handlebars are a safety issue. bikes can't split a lane if motor bike can not do so either. If road privileges are granted, then so are road guidelines. There is a lot of selective policy enforcement. I'm a solid built "gym rat". A biker will come to a sudden dead stop around me.

I didn't get the right answer for the last question. If there's a bike lane, does the cycles have to stay in it or can use the road?

They can’t safely co-exist because the cyclists don’t practice safety. I saw a cyclist cut off an ambulance! They put the elderly, children and the disabled when they ride on the sidewalk. Check out the Fielder pedestrian bridge and see how many cyclist walk their bike. None! When you call them on it their response is a verb and a pronoun. Until they understand what safety is their responsibility too, there will be more accidents.

All of those cyclists are traveling at a fast walking pace it makes more sense to just let them drive on wide side walks for everyone's safty