Driver attitude is indeed related to location to anyone with a lick of common sense. For example, if I am riding on the part of my commute that has a high number of cyclists using the nice wide-laned road, harassment is very rare, while on some of the narrow country roads on that same commute, honks and such are more common because the drivers are not used to bikes and frustrated at us getting in their way. In the downtown or suburban strip mall areas around rush hour, harrassment is even higher...to everyone, not just cyclists, because everyone is impatient, in a hurry and downright grouchy. Location, time of day, etc. have much more to do with driver attitudes than how one rides...and I'll go one step further...in the downtown/suburban areas I mentioned, drivers REALLY get peeved at the cyclists who ride "VC" rather than on the sidewalk, the shoulder or on some path - cuz we're in their way.
Now watch the dogma-infested, hard core VC cultists scream bloody murder.
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