The Times Cycling Campaign

What if the campaign makes matters worse? makes drivers more resentful? makes the police come down hard on cyclists "for their own good"
Surely we don't want everyone to save us, we are saved already, what we want is everyone else to feel comfortable about cycling.

Something in the back of my mind is saying that the same concerns have been expressed by other minority groups of people who have been discriminated against or otherwise found themselves to be at the bottom of the food chain.

I'm not particularly politically active, not a militant cyclist, but like hell I'll be walked all over because I might make things worse. Cyclists are already bottom of the food chain, beneath pedestrians in the minds of many drivers, we've got fuck all to lose by standing up for ourselves.