Neil":2j0v4xjz said:
.....comments about cyclists not being on the roads..... just general ranting against cyclists.....banging on about "car tax" and the validity of cyclists actually being on the road seem to have some bee in their bonnet against cyclists actually being traffic.
Neil, I think a large factor in the perceived increase in the "anti cyclist" angry nazi driver brigade is probably a lot to do with motorists feeling increasingly hard done by and exploited....
Increase in VED (for your "average" vehicle, that is)
Increase in congestion
Increase in cost of fuel
Increase in insurance
Decrease in road maintenance
etc etc
They are more than likely just sounding off at the nearest viable scapegoat. Its also probably tinged with more than just a teensy bit of jealousy, as the fat sweaty and skint driver gets passed by all shapes and sizes of cyclist
G