But it’s not anywhere near as bad as that article paints it in the UK. I ride nearly every day and it’s very very rare there’s any sort of incident. It’s hysterical bullshit like that which puts people off
Depends on where you live and ride, and what you call an incident, I’d guess? I’m comfortable enough riding the roads here in Swansea but still see plenty of ‘incidents’. Not enough for me to get overly angry these days, but still incredibly poor, aggressive, incompetent driving. (Just one example – I ride 4 miles to work, it’s mainly cycle paths but to get to the first cycle path I need to ride all of about half a mile on the main road. I can guarantee that every Saturday morning I will have a driver making a suicidal overtake into the on-coming traffic only to still be immediately in front of me at the roundabout before the cycle path.)
And as a pedestrian I’ll see an ‘incident’ pretty much every time I walk along a road, from drivers going through red lights across pedestrian crossings to the moron in a Range Rover gunning it past my kids’ school the other day.
Exaggerating the problem isn’t great, but ignoring the fact that there is a huge problem with driving at the moment is not helping at all.