Originally Posted by pj7
It sounds an aweful lot like special treatment if you ask me. Which should be something all cyclists strive against when it comes to our rights to the road.
If cyclists are afforded special rights that would lead to animosity from motorists.
Is it not easier and better for motorists to understand that we (cyclists) must obey the same rules while on the road instead of them having to take note of our special rights and laws?
And special rights for a bicycle tend to lead to the belief that a bicycle is an inferior vehicle.
You're close. It's special treatment, special treatment of MOTOR vehicles.
Before motor vehicles, it was not against the rules to "tailgate" and race on the roads.
The MOTORs made those practices dangerous, and, so, they are rightly prohibited, for drivers of MOTOR vehicles.