That's an interesting point - there's an advantage for cyclist safety for keeping cycle paths away from roads, so you don't have so many points of contention between cars and bicycles, but if you go to the places the roads aren't, they tend to be the deserted sheltered places where there aren't any people either, and so you're more likely to feel (and maybe be) unsafe from lurkers.
Places that are safer against lurking malefactors (by virtue of having more traffic) also have more traffic.
I personally feel much safer where there are NO people. It is a little counter~intuitive but I have found it much, much less stressful (as a lone woman walking with a very small Little Ginger Job of a dog) than places where you might encounter people.
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I personally feel much safer where there are NO people. It is a little counter~intuitive but I have found it much, much less stressful (as a lone woman walking with a very small Little Ginger Job of a dog) than places where you might encounter people.