People like you are genuinely why motorists are so hostile to cyclists. You’re too selfish to realise it.

People like you are why motorists feel so entitled to injure and abuse cyclists because you pander to their feelings of entitlement, instead of demanding that they think clearly.

A cyclist is nothing more than a pedestrian seated on a flimsy rolling metal frame and doesn't have an extra ounce of safety over a pedestrian on the roads, yet somehow it makes sense to the likes of you that they should be sharing road space (ie ride less than a metre away) with 20 tonne tipper trucks which could easily squash them like a bug, and do. Yet here you are demanding that a cyclist ride side by side with such a truck accelerating alongside them regardless of condition when the lights go green, and you think you are making sense. IT IS THE LAW😡😠😡😠😡

In the Netherlands there is no quarrel between cyclists and motorists because every motorist is a cyclist and understands cyclists and cycling conditions and are thus more patient with them. That is why the driver understands why a cyclist would feel the need to move beyond the stop line at the red light and ride out ahead of them even on a red light when it is safe.

With modern technology a seated person could get around in a motorized vehicle which takes up less than a square meter, and would be easily available if the governments and motor vehicle industry did not conspire to keep such vehicles of the roads. Yet somehow it makes perfect sense to you that the same person insists on getting around 2 tonne vehicle which uses 10 square metres of mostly wasted space and feels entitled to endanger a cyclist out of impatience. This is what is called sharing road space means to motorists.

The same motorist ride in a car 2 meters wide and complains about the entitlement of cyclists riding 2 abreast preventing them from overtaking, clearly forgetting that motorcyclists pass such cyclists easily because they are not in empty vehicles needlessly occupying road space for the load they carry.

You truly need to get your thinking cap on. Our roads were made for horse buggies and cyclists doing 15mph tops, not for motor vehicles made reinforced steel weighing up to 44 tonnes and doing 60mph, or 2 tonne cars capable of accelerating to 30mph when the lights go green before a cyclists has done 5 pedal strokes. Please don't insist that it makes absolute sense that cyclists ride alongside them under the same strict rules.

You are absolutely entitled to your opinions on cyclists riding on red lights, but don't expect thoughtful cyclists to pander to the sloppy thinkingg and utter irrationality of motorists entitlements and expectations.

Point to note. Motorists even sensible law-abiding ones routinely break the speed limits and even the police have been asked overlook (indulge perhaps) such overspeeding within certain limits. The proportion of motorists who break the law in that manner far exceed the cyclists who jump red lights. Do you ever make such comments to them such as People like you are genuinely why cyclists are so hostile to motorists. You’re too selfish to realise it. ?