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I've been addressing this exact same issue of late. Two weeks ago I was riding my bike up Welshpool Road into the hills for training. I counted no less than 16 smashed bottles along the 4kms from the base of the hill to the top. Mind you, in the bicycle lane I might add. Did someone just "accidentally" drop them at regular intervals?!
This isn't actually an issue pertaining to just motor vehicles or bicycles, nor is it soley traffic related, it's an issue of our modern society...western society mainly. It's as though a good portion of society actually want conflict.
In the last 4 trips to Thailand I have not once seen a single road rage tantrum...nothing! Bangkok for all its traffic jams, noise and smokey air is heaven compared to the hostility on our roads. Phuket driving is indescribable in parts, but still no rage.
So why is it that over there someone can pull out in front of a vehicle and that's a part of life, yet here if you pull out 100m ahead they yell "ramming speed" and bang the drum faster.
There's also a level of stupidity, by this I actually am talking about lack of intelligence. In Peter's scenario, he had to wait...wouldn't someone waiting make you question, and think? (I once had a VL Group A...front air dam was very low).
I watched people at the broken down traffic lights the other day after the storm...It was like watching that computer game 'Frogger'...not much courtesy and I've got a 4x4 so I'm first.
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