In Cal they let the bikes “share” a full lane. So you can be driving along in the morning commute like on the Coast Hwy in Encinitas in CA and then the right lane will have a bottleneck because some person on a bike is doing 15 miles and hour in a 35-40 mile per hour zone. Then everyone squeezes over to the left. About 10 miles of this nonsense.
Wow. That’s awful. Unforgivably selfish and breathtakingly dangerous. We have similar problems here on some roads in the city. I cannot believe the lack of self preservation shown by quite a few of the bicycle riders. No one can see around hair pin turns. I have known 2 people who have had serious head and neck injuries from exactly that situation. I used to joke that the spandex was cutting off circulation to their brains and preventing them from showing good judgement.
And if you criticize one of them, they are likely to break into a yelling, cussing fit. Seems to me like being an elitist isn’t all that satisfying. It certainly isn’t the zen-like image they’d like to think they portray.