Comment by mmooss
2 days ago
> Americans fucking HATE cyclists.
I haven't met those Americans, somehow. Maybe it's just more social media nonsense - people joining the mob fun and far overestimating the loud voices?
2 days ago
> Americans fucking HATE cyclists.
I haven't met those Americans, somehow. Maybe it's just more social media nonsense - people joining the mob fun and far overestimating the loud voices?
This feels more like a the company you keep situation than social media nonsense.
You happen to have a social circle that doesn't have any issues with cyclists, perhaps there are a number of them in your group.
But there are almost assuredly social circles that feel otherwise, that revel at the opportunity to roll coal as they pass a group of cyclists, that joke about running them off the road.
A quick google indicates there have been numerous studies on the subject that seem to support the idea that bicyclists are often reviled by some portion of the population, correlated with those who rely heavily on automobiles.
And, I mean, just scrolling this thread seems to show plenty of anecdotes to support the idea. Seems pretty systemic given the breadth of the anecdata.
I could be wrong, but ...
> just scrolling this thread seems to show plenty of anecdotes to support the idea. Seems pretty systemic given the breadth of the anecdata
That reasoning is the epitome of social media self-deception.
Did you ask them? Lots of things I don't like don't come up until it's relevant.
i certainly dislike that roads everywhere are so wide so as to support two rows of parked cars and then also two lanes of car traffic.
that could easily be another row of houses or a pretty big park, over and over and over again through the whole city.
its an incredible amount of government money and city land tied up in black top that needs regular resurfacing, cleaning, plowing, etc