Spat at, abused and run off the road: why do some people hate cyclists so much?
I don&#x27;t hate cyclists nor pedestrians at all, I am one at times. No ne should ever be assaulted in that manner... What perplexes me though is how hostile both bicyclists and car drivers are becoming towards each other lately, and the only thing I can imagine that is driving the ire is online partisanship or the &quot;us versus them&quot; ideals that the Internet creates, which in reality is really not sane.<p>There is some kind of shadow campaign across Reddit right now ... r&#x2F;fuckcars that threatens the very meaning of the right to own personal property in the world. It has also become kind of a brigade that lobbies and protests in many other online and real world places too, without any clear message or leadership.<p>I may be wrong, but it seems like a lobby run by people who want bicycles and public transportation to be the norm for everyone worldwide. The logic seems highly unreasonable in a capitalist society at least, and as infectious disease threatens us all that these solutions could ever be imposed on a free society of people.<p>That also being said, pedestrian, public transport, and bicyclist infrastructure is also majorly funded in part by car-related taxes, to which there is no alternate source of funding if cars completely go away, meaning that biking, public transport, and walking would all see new taxes... Just imagine having to pay a daily toll just to walk across every single bridge you use, and then another toll to be able to walk or bike through a residential neighborhood.<p>It&#x27;s very mysterious what the end game is for the r&#x2F;fuckcars subreddit lobby, is it to sell bicycles? Or run by government employees that ride bicycles to work? I took some time to look into a few posters and found many of them spoke about the cars they own in other subreddits, so it&#x27;s all very confusing to someone like me.<p>Tons of money is being wasted on alternate bike, pedestrian, and public transport infrastructure that just doesn&#x27;t work to improve safety and harmony on roads by cities every year, there needs to be some sort of accountability for whoever is driving those decisions.<p>That being said, it&#x27;s also quite hard to cart a newborn along with your grandparents to the hospital or to evacuate a city during crisis in snow, rain, tornadoes, and freezing cold weather on a Schwinn...<p>I think we all need a better dose of reduced sensationalism and more rational thought in this world when it comes to public safety and transportation, without veiled political agendas pushed online for profit.