Originally Posted by ghettocruiser

The only slightly alarming trend is that the new commute has very few interactions with other vehicles (and pedestrians), and yet the number of incidents with other road users has barely seemed to drop off. On my old route I'd interact with hundreds or thousands of cars and have only a few hot-heads per week, far less than I'd experience driving the same distance.

On the new commute, there was a ride home last month where I was only passed by five cars the whole way home, and every one of them either passed closer than 3' (on wide residential streets) or nearly ran me into the ditch with a right-hook/cell phone drift/etc. With this kind of sample, it's getting harder to sing the refrain that "most road users are careful/have no issues with bikes". I don't need people to like me or even respect me... if they'd just stop randomly swerving at me and/or screaming at me, that might suffice.