Originally Posted by
genec
John I have to disagree with you, as all those cyclists working together are indeed following the rules of the road, otherwise their system would fail miserably.
What they do not attempt to do is foolishly mix dramatically different speed and vehicle types in a delusional hodgepodge that would fail immediately if the number of slower vehicles were increased 10 fold.
Your method of vehicular cycling only works when the number of cyclists is statistically low. (and must be maintained at a low number)
Expecting motorists to slow down for massive numbers of merging cyclists is an unsustainable system.
Genec, you evidently fail to understand the ambiguity involved in your statement "following the rules of the road"; or else you are deliberately using that ambiguity in the hope that others won't notice it. I am careful to state "the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles" to avoid that ambiguity. The cyclists depicted in Copenhagen video are not obeying the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles; in fact, they are largely prohibited from operating where vehicles operate.
I see that you hold the militant motorists opinion that motorists must not be delayed by bicycle traffic! Well, well. However, I have not seen evidence that bicycle traffic causes significant delays to motor traffic on roads with sufficient width. Of course, if the road is insufficiently wide to handle the traffic, then there will be delays, but that's a problem of insufficient road capacity, not necessarily with the portion of traffic that is bicycle.