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by efnx 2645 days ago
It’s funny that the parent poster mentions this - it’s likely that either the cyclist has a car, payed in the same manner as the driver and is in the moment using the road for “leisure or sport” - or the cyclist really needs to use the road and bike for transportation.

There really is no acceptable, rational reason for animosity towards cyclists. I think it comes down to the same gut instincts as racism, sexism and xenophobia - when there’s a problem people look for whatever thing seems most different in their current surroundings and blame that thing for the problem. It’s just a lack of thinking.

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>There really is no acceptable, rational reason for animosity towards cyclists.

No rational reason for drivers in a road predominantly used from big vehicles to not like smaller, hard to see, vehicles with greater flexibility and much more fragile going around them?

The added care you need to have as a car driver, and danger they impose of accident, is not enough?

Especially since most of the time (e.g. in highways, interstates, etc) you get to have the road to just cars and don't have all this?

Being careful and aware of your surroundings is a prerequisite for driving. If you can’t avoid small vehicles you need to get off the road.