The Times Cycling Campaign

In The Guardian exactly 7 years ago....
“There is something about the miscreant cyclist that seems to get people more exercised than they are about the misbehaving motorist…When people get into cars, their metal encasement turns them into robots in our minds, and we’re grateful to them for any act of courtesy. We’re grateful that they don’t deliberately kill children, then laugh a rasping, metallic laugh…[Cyclists] are more civic-minded than anyone else travelling in any other manner, bar by foot. If they do run into someone, they at least (like the bee) do their victim the favour of hurting themselves in the process, which is why, if you had any sense, you’d save your hatred for the motorist, who (like the wasp) injures without care.”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 4th February 2006

Not sure abot this. I've seen some shocking examples of over reactions from cyclists when blatantly in the wrong e.g. undertaking gone wrong. I constantly see folk flicking the finger, effing and blinding when fairly challenged on poor cycling. I've seen folk try to teach in-attentive peds a lesson and worst of all hitting vehicles by mistake and NOT stopping or looking back to acknowledge what's happened. Zoe's memory of 2006 sounds more like 1906. There are bells that use both form of transport end of. This kind of polarizing view point just plays into the sympathisers of:
"Cyclists are pompous enough as it is - a cycling Covenant would make them unbearble"