When I used to go to the office every day, I took a 2-lane road that had a bike lane on the shoulder. This road was weird…it’s very old and in an area that used to be way outside of town “in the desert,” but is now pretty much in the middle of Scottsdale, and it’s got these up and down little rollercoaster hills just tall enough that you can’t see oncoming traffic. Twice a day on that road, I would encounter cyclists riding 2-3 abreast into the car lane, and you would come up on them on these blind hills and they would refuse to move into their bike lane. It got so bad that I started taking the longer route on the road that didn’t have a “bike lane.” Just rude and arrogant. Whatever happened to old guys staying on the golf course Instead of playing in traffic?
That’s the problem we’re dealing with here — areas that used to be rural or very, very quiet suburban have all had a bunch of development, and the roads haven’t kept up. Add to that the popularity of cycling . . . a bad combination.