I can understand how you might think that from my posts but I really am a kind of Jeckyll and Hyde on this. I can get as frustrated as the best of them at times on the bike path into Boston. Downright surly, in fact, especially after a winter of having it all to myself. But, as I point out, it's not every day and I try to make sure that I don't use the path during times when it's packed with Bozos- unless I'm in a Bozo kind of mood myself and want to join that tribe.

The thing is with improvements the path could be quite useful. And this I compare to what is basically the same conditions on the roads I have ridden since the 1960's when I first started doing long road rides in New England. There are more cars on the roads and the same percentage of them are dangerous- so even more jerks than 40 years ago in total. Despite all the arm flapping and tongue wagging about our rights to the roads I don't see any improvements in any practical way- unless there are changes in infrastructure. And I must admit a lot of roads don't need much improvement I ride them with no issues. Other roads that have been circuits used for training and racing for many years have an interesting mix of respectful drivers and downright hostile ones. And some of the hostility is worse than ever.

For all the efforts to educate police officers in the rights of cyclists it seems to have spurred police to pull over and cite cyclists for infractions but I've yet to see a cop pull over a car that was aggressing a cyclist, blocking a bike lane, right hooking someone- never- but I've seen cyclists getting tickets- so I guess in some twisted way that's progress?