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Originally Posted by Voodooman
I think a big issue is that this city is home to both Canada's most entitled, obnoxious wannabe population of cyclists and Canada's most aggro over-bro'd jackhole population of drivers.
By far, you see more $9,000 road bikes being operated by some spandex clad Tour de Dips#*t wannabes here than anywhere else in Canada. Places like Vancouver, Montreal and even Toronto, people just ride to work in their normal clothes, or shorts and a t-shirt like normal humans. Here, it seems like a contest to show off who spent the most on cycling gear. I see so many jokers riding in a full racing singlet going from Inglewood to DT, it's just laughable.
On the other hand, Calgary is also the home to hordes of both Truck Nutz clad Ram 2500's driven by yahoos in flat billed hats AND European AWD SUV's owned by people who never leave the inner city and talk far too much about mouth-feel in craft beer (that's me!), who make it their mission to own the road.
It's just a recipe for disaster from the get-go. We're like the middle of a Venn diagram of syphilis and antimatter.
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Nothing to add except to add you are absolutely correct about entitlement in this city (drivers and cyclists alike, and pretty much a large chunk of the population in general).
and also to add I love the Venn diagram analogy.