Comment 96449

By LOL_all_over_again (registered) | Posted January 04, 2014 at 21:49:09 in reply to Comment 96421

I don't hate cycling. I hate the lack of common sense. Hundreds of thousands of cars, hundreds of buses, more hundreds of trucks, plus cop cars fire trucks and ambulances compared to what a few dozen cyclists in the winter. If you want to ride your bike then please do, all the more power to you. Just don't expect the rest of society to join you or even understand why you or anyone else would.

I was at a Christmas party not long ago and the subject of winter cyclists came up and was greatly ridiculed. There where 35 or 40 people there and not one of them could understand why anyone would take a bike out in the winter. Just like motorcycles most bicycles disappear from our roads come November, December. Society doesn't understand cycling in the winter and that's why bike lanes are not cleared. Some guy driving a truck thinks you would have to be absolutely nuts to ride a bike once the temperature goes below balmy, and you wonder why he doesn't clear the bike lane. How many cyclists have you seen since the weather got cold, even before the first snow? Very Very Very few. Those of you who insist on riding their bikes in the winter will do so whether or not the bike lanes are cleared so why bother clearing them.

This is how cyclists are viewed by "normal" people. People who drive cars all the time. The hundreds of thousands who pay millions of dollars in taxes that provide the money the city runs on. Unfortunately for you I don't see the attitude or the snow clearing changing any time soon.

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