Originally Posted by Bekologist

The article was interesting look into the ways of motorist groupthink and how we are defined as species of road users from both sides of the windshield... Rather humorous Tom Vanderbilt mentioned the Wisconsin fella with the two cameras on him taping every moment of every ride (who's thinking of giving up making left turns because of the aggressive motorists disrespecting him )


Hoping to intimidate motorists into respecting cyclists by riding past their houses a few times sounds a bit queegish. Like Tom Vanderbilt outlines in the article, bicyclists are outliers in the US, and a lot of motorists are angry behind the wheel. There's always another raging cager that will be along shortly.

It's systemic.


What's also systemic are more normalized interactions between cyclists and motorists in places where cycling is a popular, everyday activity. In places where a third of all daily trips are undertaken by bicycle, everyone either is a cyclist or knows a cyclist and works and lives near and with cyclists, hoardes of cyclists on a daily basis. The outlier effect is noted to be minimal in Copenhagen.