Originally Posted by mdarnton

All it takes is one incident for someone to start complaining about drivers, but my Chicago experience has been exceptionally good: 3500 miles in the last two years and not a single jackass interaction. If anything they drive as if they are afraid of bikes, giving me wide berth and yielding to me when they should not.

I have driven all over the north and near west and south sides at all times and days, including commuting downtown during the rush hour right down State Street. One fly in the ointment has been new bike lanes, which are routinely used for parking, unenforced by the police, and so I don't generally use those streets. But that is a policing problem and all of my personal moving interactions with drivers have been good.

I do see lots of a**hole cyclists, however and have had some close calls with them. . . that's one reason I don't generally ride the lakefront bike path.