It's not as bad riding here as those comments would have you think. I get the impression from a lot of the commenters that they're not people who actually work or live in Lincoln. I've only ever had one very minor incident on the roads here, though.

Those comments, and the underlying lack of understanding they demonstrate, were bothering me, though, so I emailed the police chief to see if he would be interested in addressing bikes as vehicles on his well-read and respected blog sometime soon. He replied that he'll put it on his topic list. It would be great to have a local person in a position of authority go on record regarding the laws and their practical application, and might help out the local cycling community in some small way. So we'll see.

By the way, I understand that John Maher, publisher of the Lincoln Journal Star, is a bike commuter himself. So the local paper will most likely continue to include pro-cyclist and pro-bike commuting articles, online comments by unhappy readers notwithstanding.