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Bicycling as means of transportation is a live political discussion in Canada and throughout the world. Academics in many different areas of knowledge, such as sociology, geography, and history, have produced significant research on the topic. 1
However, not a great deal of academic legal literature and research has been produced.2
Proposing an agenda to fill this gap, Christopher Waters suggests the rebirth of cycling law.3

This area of law existed before the automobile era under the name “law of wheelmen;” however, it was forgotten after the motorization of our roads and laws.
Waters cites many areas that may be the focus of future legal cycling research, from infrastructure to enforcement. Cycling law, as any area of law, cannot be disconnected from other areas of social research. For that reason, Waters relies not only on legal literature from the law of wheelmen era, but also on modern academic literature on cycling, citing for example Glen Norcliffe as the leading scholar on the topic.