>I am a cyclist. I am always incredibly wary when I see drivers using their phones.
OTOH, I'm always wary when I see cyclists on roads where heavy boxes run with 40-80 miles per hour...
OTOH, I'm always wary when I see cyclists on roads where heavy boxes run with 40-80 miles per hour...
Like I said, the world changes. We got to this autoist-centric world slowly and through a lot of policy choices, and we'll move away from it the same way.
I do see this remark ("you dumb kids on your bikes break all the traffic laws!!") on all the web forums for the local newspaper, whenever any article comes along about bike lanes or whatever. I just don't see people on bikes breaking traffic laws anywhere near as often as people in cars.
As for needing to avoid things, would you call traffic circles or pedestrians a "hazard" as well? Again, you're in a two-ton metal box, none of this stuff is going to do anything more than scratch your paint.
If you want cyclists off roads, lobby to change the law.