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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.” [/quote]

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned. [/quote]

The entitlement comes in many forms, [b]like when they pound on your car because they're unhappy about something you did[/b], and they just assume that the drivers won't respond in a way that will put them in a hospital and/or grave. As I a driver, I would never confront another driver because you just don't know...[/quote]

I infer that, because you are posting about this specific act, that this happen to you. I will further infer that this act was triggered by you driving in a manner that endangered the welfare of the cyclist. I will yet further infer from the rest of your message that your dangerous driving is predicated on notions of innate superiority and a callous disregard for the lives of other road users. I encourage you to either stop driving or seek psychological help for your personality disorder before you commit something more serious than making a stupid post on an anonymous forum.[/quote]

You are proving the point. You have to be pretty entitled to think you have the right to scream at a stranger and pound on their car because they did something that you don't approve of. You also have to be pretty stupid. There are lots of people in this world who are in prison and lots of people who are dead because someone felt disrespected. [/quote]

There is a much much greater number of people whose lives have been destroyed by drivers who failed to exercise due care while driving or tried to make some sick point because they didn’t like what someone else was doing on the road. Someone banging on your trunk may be annoying, but the odds are that you did something much worse to cause them to do this.[/quote]

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