[cybrgeezer]

As an avid cyclist, I blame the police.

There are laws in Florida and most states that define bicycles as vehicles subject to the same rights and responsibilities as motor vehicles on the roads.

If police would enforce those laws, word would get around that breaking those laws is a bad idea.

I was once on my bike in the left-turn lane at a traffic light and the driver of the pick-up next to me in the straight-ahead lane said "I didn't think you guys had to stop for red lights."

Ignorance is widespread. It would help if police would study the laws relating to bicycles and enforce them.