| You seem to be approaching this from a highly emotional and potentially biased position based on the language and appeals to emotion you are using. "You're still not zooming out and showing a large lack of empathy." I have zoomed out and have empathy. What makes you say I don't? Just that you disagree with my statement that some cyclist do illegal and unsafe things? Most of the things you mentioned as issues are about education and infrastructure. Improving thr infrastructure would be great. It's happening, but will take time to fully catch on and have implementation funding. The education part goes both ways. You're on a bike and I'm assuming you follow the laws. So from your perspective drivers are the problem because you've already controlled the risk on your end (or are blind to it). The same is true for the drivers' perspective. "I expect an equal amount of my tax money to go to bike-centric infrastructure then." Equal how? On a per capita basis, that's fine. But a lot of the funding for roads is done via fuel tax and tolls. With such low use, there's not a lot of political incentive to raise taxes for this funding either. Maybe that will change. "people who haven't had to ride a bike or walk to work" I've riden bikes on suburban streets and I've walked to work, the store, and other places on a variety of roads. Yes you have to be vigilant. Arguably the people driving should be vigilant too. But that comes back to testing/training again. "No actually that's the problem and I'm so scared of them I need to make sure the entire world conforms to what I'm doing and leaves no room for them to interact with me" You've grossly misconstrued what I've been saying. Which mostly that we need better training/testing for drivers and cyclists. |