One of the reasons it's getting worst (IMO) is because as the numbers have swelled there isn't anything even nearly approaching uniform behaviour. If there was it would make cyclists as a group far more predictable. People DO NOT like uncertainty.
I got pilloried in the recent past for saying it as I experience it: fellow cyclists are my constant threat on the road (not the biggest but the most frequent). Until we, as a group fix up then it will continue.
Simple things like using junctions properly and not sheepishly herding to the gutter irrespective where you're going would help, otherwise motorised bullies continue to [strike]expec[/strike] demand the gutter is where we remain. Not blindly bottle necking the front of queues@lights even when there's no space to get there or no box.
+1, there is a predictable amount of bollocks on the TV at the moment due to the Wiggins and Shane incidents, quote of the morning on BBBC Breakfast "Sandra has written in saying she just doesn't know what cyclists are going to do on the road".
The response here would be that if she had some cycle training she'd get a better idea of what cyclists are going to do- but still, we as a whole, need to get our house in order in terms of behaving in such a way that other road users can understand what we are going to do next.
Once we remove the "FUCK! Where are they going!" level of fear and uncertainty things, I hope, would get a bit better.
+1, there is a predictable amount of bollocks on the TV at the moment due to the Wiggins and Shane incidents, quote of the morning on BBBC Breakfast "Sandra has written in saying she just doesn't know what cyclists are going to do on the road".
The response here would be that if she had some cycle training she'd get a better idea of what cyclists are going to do- but still, we as a whole, need to get our house in order in terms of behaving in such a way that other road users can understand what we are going to do next.
Once we remove the "FUCK! Where are they going!" level of fear and uncertainty things, I hope, would get a bit better.