I’ve got a much longer post/ramble/incoherant strategy document that I’m mulling over, I’m sure you all cannot wait, but in the meantime a short rant-et:
Jesus wept, London cycling is like a battle ground! Was over (from der Schweiz) for a week with family for hols, thought me and oldest might rent boris bikes and tootle about a bit, but **** that!
Drivers are aggresive, battling, many flaunting road laws, downright dangerous.
Cyclists equally horrific or even worse! Aggresive, erratic, selfish, little/no adherance to road laws, dangerous – not 1 or 2 either, my impression was that a large percentage riders were like this.
I can understand why a great deal of non-cyclist public opinion is against us.
What a battle ground. Makes Basel look like a dithering backwater (which in many respects it is!), and Amsterdam cyclists look positively laid back.
Are we also to blame for cycle (ha!) of spiralling negativity around cycling/cyclists in UK? What will it take to change this situation? Should I just stop reading the news?
(BTW, observed pretty similar behaviors last time was home to Glasgow and Edinburgh, so not restricted to that there London)