Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
I think you have been exceedingly kind in your rebuttal of the o.p.'s broad brushed characterization of your city. Rest assured, the U.S. is no bastion of bike friendliness. Quite the opposite. There are only a handful of cities considered bike friendly and two of those get that distinction simply from their "critical mass" of vehicular cyclists (a large percentage of whom are simply too poor to travel any other way) and not from any real committment to foster a culture of bicycle awareness in the driving public.
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Not to discredit the OP, but I was quite surprised to hear this. In larger German cities that cycling is quite good and I usually have more issues with peds that with drivers (or other cyclists for that matter).