Originally Posted by
daven1986
So my girlfriend and her friend came to the conclusion that cycling is selfish because they saw a bus full of people have to slow down behind a cyclist in the bus lane (cyclists are allowed to use bus lanes).
Now perhaps this could be considered slightly selfish behaviour, but I love how society has completely forgotten about how selfish driving is. No one comments on how all the cars are holding up loads of people in a bus. No one comments how there is usually only 1 person in a huge car.
Just another reason we need to move society away from being car-centric. If we could do this then maybe people will realise how selfish they have all been, driving their cars and taking up space, oil and polluting the atmosphere.
Daven
No disrespect to your girlfriend; however, most women are not the strongest of strategic thinkers. They focus on the immediate particularly when it comes to their own comfort/discomfort. So when it comes to the topic of cycling they focus on the inconvenience of being in a motor vehicle behind said cyclist and not on the benefits of if there were less cars and more bikers on the road.