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Maybe the reaction is more to your accusational and negative tone? "Why didn't you warn me of your presence" Your question infers that they are in the wrong for not doing something but the reality is they are not required to.
Was this not a warning of their presence?? This sounds like the collision was an accident after some sort of mistake, maybe a swerve in reaction to a squirrel running out, who knows. You should not apportion malice to what can easily be attributed to an accident or lack of ability.
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Couldn't resist trying to shoot down a very respectful attempt to have a constructive discussion, started by someone WHO IS BASICALLY ON YOUR SIDE!
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Gosh, is yours a fixed attitude by any chance? 'We're in the right, cos we're cyclists'.
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How to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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Hook, line, sinker seems to be the attitude of someone who has posted under a fake account and then caught someone with it.
I hope this isn't the case even though the poster also seems to have keys stuck on their keyboard.
And in your rush to "be right", you seem to have not noticed Andy replying with
Or, believes they have "caught someone with it", which they actually have not.
The OP seems to generalise all cyclists as behaving this way on this particular path, which seems incredibly unlikely and inconsistent with "not having agripe with cyclists"... so not at all "ON YOUR SIDE", whatever side of whatever that is, some imaginery conflict I would posit.
The 50-year-old crashing into an older person when it sounds entirely avoidable and preferable also doesn't pass the sniff test. I can't imagine deliberately cycling that close to someone, let alone in such circumstances.
The "Why can't that be respected" also seems disingenuous, and then there are the double exclamation marks on "where cyclists are not allowed". A very confused message saying they think cyclists are fine but then betraying that with all the hidden intentions in the remarks.
If the particular shared path is as bad as they claim it is, I would recommend staying away from it.
Paint isn't infrastructure, and many pedestrians stray into the cyclist side of such divided paths, which just leaves less room for a cyclist to pass on (which is obviously worse), so I would say a dividing line could make things worse.
Why don't you just make a constructive reply to the OP?
Do you have any advice for the OP?
Let me clarify as of course I've been misinterpreted. I'm not denying that the person who started this thread got hit by an inconsiderate cyclist, nor that she gets passed by cyclists at speed and distance that she finds uncomfortable. I take issue with what I quoted in italics because:
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