Originally Posted by
genec
Actually "traffic engineering knowledge" has long held that vehicles moving at dramatically differing speeds on a roadway tend to cause traffic problems.
I cannot deny your goal of defeating "the tyranny of the majority." It is a noble cause.
But since said laws are so poorly known by the general public, what makes you believe that a change in law will have any affect on the discrimination of cyclists by the majority road users?
With respect to different speeds, so what? We are discussing roads on which different speeds are not only allowed, but are required for various lawful movements. The system has to operate to include such operation, and indeed it does.
I don't care much what the general public thinks about cycling. I've cycled for many years in a society that is ignorant about cycling. I know enough to despise the usual currents of thought about cycling, even as many popular superstitions are expressed in these discussions. So long as government doesn't discriminate against me, which has very nasty consequences, I will manage. I don't see why others cannot have the self confidence to know what's best in a world of silly opinions.