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.
H
I'm used to broad brush generalisations - the number of people who use sweeping statements you'd think that just about every living person was the antichrist incarnate... although in fairness my experience is based on central London and westerly/southerly parts - my experiences of north and east London are limited so it's possible things are different there.
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