I agree with you, again for me this comes from personal cycling experience and seeing a lot of bikers ride dangerously. My take is that the traffic fails to acc

I agree with you, again for me this comes from personal cycling experience and seeing a lot of bikers ride dangerously. My take is that the traffic fails to accommodate cyclists sufficiently, which creates a kind of 'impedance mismatch' so to speak. For example, say a bus overtakes a cyclist and stops 40m in front. A car would signal, wait for a space, turn, then catch up to the traffic. For a bike, it needs to signal, wait for a space, then start peddling, which is very much slower than a car. A car following the bike needs to slow down creating a hazard. I experience this many times in the past few months, especially where one has to peddle up hill. The reason I noticed this is because recently I tried electric bikes, they greatly help with the initial peddling which I feel make me less of a target for cars. An easier route for a normal bike is to take the side walk and avoid that hazard all together. Another is when waiting for green light, bikers tend to peddle before the traffic light turns green because they can get a head start peddling. Personally I feel pressured to do so to avoid the cars behind me overtaking dangerously.