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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Excellent opening post. It would be good to see more such. Engaging in dialogue is better than spewing anger.
Lots of roads and streets in Minnesota have dedicated bicycle lanes where only bicycle traffic is allowed. I haven't been to many places yet in Florida but I've not seen them here. While they don't solve all problems those lanes do help. The problem is that not all streets have them and there are bicyclists up there who insist on riding their bicycles on streets with no bike lanes--during rush hour traffic. Rush hour in downtown Minneapolis, as in most large cities I imagine, can become nightmarish, and there is a lot of resentment from motorists when bicyclists are navigating those streets two abreast and going much slower than the vehicular traffic. It doesn't make a lot of sense: driving in rush hour there is hurry-up-and-wait most of the time, but there have been numerous incidents when that resentment boils over into out-and-out rage, with bicycles bumped off streets by cars, quite a few injuries of bicyclists, and some deaths.
When it is bicycle vs. car, bicycle loses every time.
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My ONLY problem are the ones who ride in "packs" (sometimes 15 - 20 or more in the pack), three and four abreast and disregard the road rules on major thoroughfares (e.g.
Buena Vista Blvd) . In the event they do stop at a signal when there is a car in the right lane, they get upset if the car turns right and inhibits their forward progress. These are the folks that create the distain for cyclists. You know who you are.