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Of course, you can see it like that. I was just interested in the unintentional revelation in the comments on the picture.
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although now not all cycling paths are mandatory in Germany (I speak from berlin experience). only the signed ones, meaning not the incredibly shit ones which are effectively the pavement.
doesnt refrain bmw (80%) drivers of the time to shout at you while pointing at the cycling path. having been in several situations where I could explain the damn drivers I am not obliged to ride on the cycling path and why (its frankly dangerous to use them) they generally tone down.
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Yes, I posted about that fairly recently:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13860236/
Some old articles about it (in German):
An interesting account of the struggles they've had in Hamburg:
https://hamburg.adfc.de/verkehr/themen-a-z/radwegebenutzungspflicht/radwegbenutzungspflicht/
They even have a leaflet for drivers who encounter cyclists riding in the carriageway:
Here's the report on the judgement of the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (essentially the same as that of the Bavarian Administrative Court, which it confirmed in all points):
Even so, this is far from satisfactory, of course, as it leaves a couple of loopholes or "Gummiparagraphen", and de facto very little has been done on the ground (apart from some major cities, it seems--it's good to hear about Berlin).
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This is another interesting article from Hamburg:
Briefly, a rider had to sue the city authorities to have the Radwegebenutzungspflicht removed from certain cycle paths.
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Cyclists are narcissists
Which perhaps is why cyclists are hated
Or perhaps we are hated because of the existential threat we pose to people who choose to drive -
Well, that's just the usual prejudice perhaps dressed up a bit because it comes from a 'psychotherapist'.
There are certainly problems with the socio-economic profile of cyclists and the resulting stereotypes--i.e., either fairly well-off middle-class people who see cycling as a status symbol, or rather poor people who are just losers in life (to be clear, I'm referencing the nasty stereotypes here, not the reality)--but any psychotherapist worth their salt (no pun intended) should recognise that significant psychological phenomena are likely to be encountered fairly evenly throughout the population.
If you cycle, you probably either don't have very far to go from home to work (meaning you quite likely have money), do a light job that doesn't require heavy tools that you carry (beyond the odd laptop), or have time and facilities to combobulate yourself should you become discombobulated on your ride (sweat, rain, etc.), etc. All of these things can incite jealousy. Or, indeed, you're just poor and obviously non-conformist and a menace to society.
Add to that things like the 'good for the environment' nimbus (the cause of that is actually when places one needs to go to are very close together, see above) very visible law-breaking (all road users break the law at times, drivers most prominently by not obeying speed limits, but is most visible when people cycle, e.g. the obvious red light jumping through an all-green pedestrian phase) and minority status, and you quickly arrive at views like those held by Ms Beresford, quite often because of individual incidents.
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