The core problem is nobody gives a shit. The traffic designers, the urban planners, the cyclists, the drivers, the pedestrians, the cops, the government. Every

The core problem is nobody gives a shit. The traffic designers, the urban planners, the cyclists, the drivers, the pedestrians, the cops, the government. Everyone cheats, everyone makes excuses, it's someone else's fault, yadda yadda. It makes perfect sense for cyclists to obey the effing law but they don't. They'll rattle off an infinite number of excuses, ranging from it doesn't make sense, to everybody does it why should I be the good rider, to laws of physics: it is hard to stop a bike and then restart at an intersection so I will just race right through, yadda yadda yadda. It's lazy, cheater thinking. Everyone out for themselves. No empathy anywhere in sight.