BillH, actually it is more insidious than that... There is the implication that cyclists "rights" are violated... however, the cyclist is only a cyclist when they use a bicycle, the operator, a human, retains all their "rights" and can invoke the "rights" of any other operator simply by changing machines.

No other group of "segregated" humans has ever been able to switch "classes" simply by choice...

And in this case, choice of modes of transportation. I wonder when the "trainists" are going to argue that they have the right to leave the tracks... or the motorists have the right to access the sidewalks...