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Originally Posted by Mass_nerder
It's kind of funny to me that so many people in this thread have such an axe to grind with cyclists.
Because Calgary's lack of bike infrastructure forces cyclists to use unmarked roads, bikes should be treated like a motor vehicle; however, the reality of the situation is that bikes aren't motor vehicles.
There are some things they can do, that a motor vehicle can't, and there are plenty of things they can't do.
It seems like a lot of the "anti-cyclists" in this thread want to complain about both.
Cyclists want to keep to the far right of the lane and ride to the front at lights, where they're more visible? "That's unfair, why should they get to cut to the front of the line!". Cyclist takes up the entire lane, because he doesn't want to be crushed in traffic? "who the hell does this cyclist think he is, making me slow down!?"
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I hate to say this, but you're missing the point entirely. It has nothing to do with fairness, it has to do with the Cyclist's own double-standard.
The Cyclist attitude of; 'we have to bend the rules to suit us for our own safety,' is inherently contradictory to riding to the front of the line at a red light.
Why? Because forcing cars to constantly pass an unprotected and slow moving obstacle over and over is in and of itself
UNSAFE!
Cyclists in this thread are constantly complaining that cars dont give them enough room when they're being passed and as such they are coming very close to large, dangerous, relatively fast moving and unyielding hazards that could potentially seriously injure a cyclist. And then they force that same hazard to continue coming uncomfortably close to them repeatedly of their own free will.
So who is being unreasonably stubborn here?
"Man, those cars arent giving me enough room on the road, this is dangerous, I could get clipped by one and then re-arrange most of my skin with a nice dose of road-rash, I had better go to the front at the lights in order to force them all to come too close to me more often because that'll definitely be safer."