to bolster this with an example about biking/driving: on my bike, i'm inconvenienced by cars plenty. them passing me just to get stopped in front of me at a red light, then wait to make a left turn. them parking by pulling across the bike lane. them "parking" by putting their hazard lights on while sitting *in* the bike lane.
i've had cars pass me *when i'm going the speed limit.*
the point being... when there's resource contention, the automatic default assumption seems to be that the convenience of drivers matters more than the convenience of cyclists. there's resource contention between everyone on the road, but there's a marked asymmetry in the expectations about how that contention ought to be resolved.
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Date: 2013-05-24 11:48 pm (UTC)From:i've had cars pass me *when i'm going the speed limit.*
the point being... when there's resource contention, the automatic default assumption seems to be that the convenience of drivers matters more than the convenience of cyclists. there's resource contention between everyone on the road, but there's a marked asymmetry in the expectations about how that contention ought to be resolved.