London Buses are Good

mitre_tester, the idea inherent in cycle training is actually that you learn to share space by interacting socially with other road users. So if you say something like 'they're reasonably easy to avoid', that makes it sound as if you're trying to zip past without interaction. Also, if you say ...

The issue is not predictability; they are, almost without exception, arrogant, stupid and entirely devoid of any sense of self-preservation. Knowing that, they're reasonably easy to avoid. I've only ever hit one by accident, and he was drunk and performed a really impressive U-turn in the middle of the road after I'd taken evasive action in response to his blindly launching himself across 4 lanes of traffic some 20 yards from a perfectly adequate pelican crossing.

**To say that pedestrians are predictably stupid does not excuse their stupidity any more **than saying that MPs are predictably thieving scumbags excuses their thieving scumbaggery.

... that makes you sound positively sociophobic. They're people like you and I. It's easy to interact with them in perfectly pleasant ways even just in passing. What gives?