Yeah, the city boasts about being pro active-transit and then defending their goal of basically increasing car traffic (by numbers). The bike lanes that suddenly stop are also weird and the defense of shared pathway “see, we have a sign”. Problem is, once people are not using a car, and the number of pedestrians increases, this is ripe for conflict and constantly ringing the bike bell. It just works for now, because there is basically only a handful of people outside a car..
Suburbia is safe on the street though, the sidewalks there are not really meant to walk on anyways and quite small.