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> Each side wants all of the rights and none of the responsibilities, which should be no surprise. Cyclists like to ignore traffic signals when they're inconvenient. Cars like to pass bicyclists unsafely when staying behind them is inconvenient. Both sides abhor signaling.

Can we please stop with the moral equivalence nonsense. Yes we should all be more considerate, but please at least try to acknowledge the incredible power imbalance here.



I did not say, nor did I mean to imply, that they're somehow equivalent. I'm just pointing out that both types of people behave like, well, people, and both want to bend the rules to best suit them. I'm not saying that both are equally bad for it.




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