Are bike haters a sign of a successful cycling community?

While we have never understood the vitriole drivers express toward cyclists (other than they selfishly don't want to share the road and might have to pay more attention to what they're doing), the notion that more change means more friction and therefore it's a sign that things are changing is a provocative one.

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"The most thoughtful response, in the current case, came from Carl Alviani, writing in Medium. Alviani traces the source of much driver contempt toward cyclists to a basic cognitive bias called the fundamental attribution error—basically, a tendency to attribute behavior to personality or disposition, rather than a situation or environment. So, cyclists think they're above the law because that's how they are; not, cyclists occasionally make poor riding decisions because the road network wasn't designed with them in mind."

Read the rest of the story here.