Originally Posted by B. Carfree

I disagree with the notion that the root cause of the rage is our infrastructure. If road users were aware of the laws governing use of the roadways, then conflicts would be few and rarely fatal. However, we have created a rather large population of motorists and cyclists who can't be bothered to learn the vehicle code. Sadly, there is no need to acquire much more than the bare minimum knowledge that will allow a person to make a car go forward in order to receive a driver's license and our lack of traffic law enforcement and permissive traffic courts have made it nearly impossible to get the worst motorists off the road.

It seems to me that nearly all motorists get angry at a cyclist for being on the road in large part because they don't know that cyclists have just as much right to the road way as motorists do. Blaming the infrastructure is misplacing the blame.