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Article #40249Re: Palo Alto's bike boulevard discriminates against bikes
From: Roger Marquis
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 06:47
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 06:47
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Rich Feldman (rich@megatest.com) wrote: >Most people admire (or at worst, envy) cyclists as physically fit and >socially motivated individuals, and correctly (in most circumstances) >regard them as slower than cars. There's an interesting theory floating around the psychological community regarding this sort of aggressive driving behavior. Some researchers consider it to have an unconscious source related to primitive territorial behaviors. Just like a dog pisses out his territory some drivers (unintentionally?) terrorize cyclists to mark out their turf. As theories go it seems to be at least as plausible as any other explanation for all the rude drivers out there. Roger Marquis
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