Originally Posted by genec
Well then shouldn't we call it "motorist superiority" vice "cyclist inferiority?" It is the motorist that seems to have the problem with cyclists using "their" streets.
It is the motorist that yells out, honks out and otherwise acts out that pushes the cyclist to think and feel that the cyclist doesn't belong on the road.
Sure seems like a motorist issue to me. Perhaps the motorist needs a book called Effective Driving... with a long chapter on "sharing the road."
This is certainly correct. However, it has its flip side also, which is that so many cyclists don't want to share the roads with motorists, saying that they need special protection, special facilities, and the like, features that sometimes benefit cyclists a little, but at other times emphasize their inferior status. Neither side of this controversy is doing its best, which is to cooperate in both having equal individual rights to use the roadways according to the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles.