BT Humble writes:

deejbah wrote:
Police have 'launched a safety 'blitz''
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...09/2134767.htm) on
cyclists failing to obey road rules, using the number of cyclists
killed in accidents deemed the responsiblity of someone driving a
motor vehicle as a bizarre justification for the 'crackdown'.

Fair point. However, doesn't it make it much more difficult for our
various cycling lobby groups to claim the tactically valuable Moral
High Ground when car commuters get to see cyclists brazenly breaking
road rules every day?

Car commuters see cyclists "brazenly" breaking road rules every day yet
fail to far larger numbers of car commuters breaking road rules every
day.

An unfortunate fact of life for any minority, your faults get seen and
you have to be squeaky clean. People always see members of the "other
tribe" do the wrong thing and overlook members of their tribe doing the
exact same thing.

I know that the red light runners irritate me.

They irritate me too, I see about a dozen a day at one intersection in
particular. Oh, they're all people driving cars, trucks and buses. I'm
lucky if I see two bikes a day in my ride to work.

BTH
Adrian