You know em. We all hate em. Bicyclists.
"In March, New Yorker columnist John Cassidy blogged about the city’s new bike lanes. He was annoyed that they made it harder for him to drive his Jaguar around Manhattan, and bemoaned the city’s bicyclists as a privileged, insular aristocracy, a “faddist minority intent on foisting its bipedalist views on a disinterested or actively reluctant populace.”"
This article continues with a counter of liberal backlash.
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/04/are_urban_bicyclists_just_elite_snobs/singleton/
On the article:
We need a new bicycle awareness that informs both elitist bicyclists of how to ride like a car, and diesel powered road hogs to how to pass by as safely as a butterfly. I think in the end it is about the freedom and opportunity for both to exist. The problem is that vehicular infrastructure has dominated the scene for so long.
Transportation in general:
The transportation infrastructure budget and direction has some serious challenges facing them in the future. Painting a white line is the most fiscally conservative, socially beneficial, and environmentally benign approach anyone should be able to get behind. I don't think it needs to be much more complicated than that.
Oh, and no urban bicycle elitists aren't using.
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