Originally Posted by Bekologist

I see that john forester now addresses speed differentials for bicyclists not with recognition of this traffic engineering 101 reality or potential remediation, but his trademark 'so what?' proclamation.

Despite the 'so what' bluff, speed differentials matter.

the gorilla of speed differential, which john forester himself admits can cause traffic negotiations to be so difficult for even an expert *ahem* cyclist such as himself he sometimes had to ride in a very unvehicular 'road sneak' position between two faster moving lines of traffic he was unable to act vehicularly amidst due to the speed differential.



Quite obviously this is some affliction, a festering 'so what?' superstition that speed differential doesn't matter to bicyclists. The contradictions are staggering.