Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
Genec,
I know that you're being somewhat humorous with your response, but just yesterday I was controlling the lane with a city bus behind me and never felt that I was in any danger or anything from the bus behind me. And it worked out fine.
While I am being somewhat sarcastic, (a cyclist cannot actually "control" a lane) there is a bit of truthful question here. You "controlled" the lane because the bus driver was cooperative. What happens when traffic is not cooperative? No one seems to want to touch that, and yet we have loads of examples of aggressive motorists that chose to not be cooperative...
So what happens when controlling cyclist meets controlling motorist... no one wants to discuss with that possibility... yet we see loads of responses in typical newspaper/webpage comment sections that show there is a segment of society that abhors cyclists.