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Anyone else feeling like driver anger levels, general poor regard / road sense and volume of traffic has super-escalated in the last month or so?
See this thread:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/345710/
It was clear to me that this was going to happen. How long it'll last is anyone's guess. And the pandemic is far from 'over', unfortunately. I have a feeling that, vaccination or not, European countries are merely repeating the mistakes of last summer, when it seems the seeds of the waves in autumn and winter were sown.
Cycle training is a good idea completely irrespective of whether you're 'the problem'. (Most likely you're not, but there are always things one can do better, yours truly included. Learning more about how traffic works is good.)
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tl:dr - might buy a car, don’t want to become part of that problem dilemma
Anyone else feeling like driver anger levels, general poor regard / road sense and volume of traffic has super-escalated in the last month or so?
Obviously people getting back to work and all that, was going to be a marked change (and using a car rather than public transport) but seems to me much worse than a year back or more. I’m getting a serious rage attacks, cutting up, undertaking (!) left hooks, close passes at least once a week now and starting to feel like I’ve a target pinned on my back.
Apart from the danger it’s also giving me awful anxiety and seriously thinking about chucking in the towel. What’s the point of becoming an accident statistic for the sake of travelling to a job I don’t really like. I used to look forward to the cycling and I don’t want this twice daily game of chance to spoil riding bikes but seriously this neck of the woods is turning into a horrible place to live with people who are becoming increasingly hostile to anything with less than four wheels.
I’d consider cycle training (maybe I’m the problem) but I don’t think that’ll gift me a forcefield.
Apologies. Gripe over. Going to look at whether I can catch a bus/train/bus to work for a few days.