Strange as it may seem, as much as I'm willing to offer a counter to Fast Cloud et al's warped POV, I, too, don't have a problem with well-designed MUP's.

I ride one into work most days but as the weather warms it gets more and more crowded, and frankly, not so great for a fast moving commuter during peak hours. It's not crowded with commuting cyclists- that would be fine- but with people literally standing in the middle of it, wandering back and forth on it, walking 4 across it and unwilling to step aside. I end up riding in the dirt along the side of the path at times just because people won't move out of the way.

I'm very happy on those days that I still have the right to the road and I take full advantage of that right. For much of my commute it is a necessity to "take the lane" in order to safely negotiate the city streets.

My issue is with people on either side of the argument who live in such a black and white world they cannot see that there is quite a colorful one right in between the two.

For Fast Cloud: Regarding the "hate" towards motorists. Many cyclists are people who got out of their cars and started riding a bike to work and around town and for fun and exercise because they just got sick of sitting on their fat butts in a car all the time- basically they began to resent their time in a car- they "hated" it. They hated being stuck in traffic, hated how much money they spent on their car, hated all that gas they were burning, hated lining the pockets of some anti-American, anti-semitic, , misogynistic, tyrannical, violent, non-democratic regime every time they filled their tank, hated the noise level, hated the congestion, hated the decline in air quality, hated the 40,000 lives lost every year to accidents.

Then the cyclist gets out on the road and rides. And every once in a while some jerk, who probably also hates and resents being in their car but is too lazy or stupid to get out of his car and ride a bike, feels the needs to "throw a milkshake" or swerve at the cyclist or blow their horn. And as that driver goes off down the road, yes, the cyclist says, "I hate drivers!"