From Oz - The War on Cyclists

From the NY Times Australia desk. Scroll down to "Dangerous Coexistence."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/australia/the-war-on-cycli...

http://www.postnewsreport.com/the-breakdown-why-do-cyclists-inspire...

“If you get a bunch of people in a room and toss a coin and separate them into groups of ‘heads’ and ‘tails,’ within a few minutes, they’ll start discriminating against each other,” he said. “It’s very deeply rooted in us.”

Cyclists, though, may have a clearer group of traits that lead drivers to designate them as “others.”

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But, Dr. Walker said, another intrinsic human drive may also be involved: the demand for resources. Or, road space.

“If cyclists only ever did mountain biking, I can’t imagine this issue would arise,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/australia/the-war-on-cycli...

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Permalink Reply by Marcelo Marcos on July 14, 2017 at 3:30am

Can't reach the article but its seems like it reaches the same conclusions Wendy Zukerman from Science Vs. communicated back in the day. A lot of it has to be the us vs. them mentality that is ingrained deeply within our culture. Must be bad there too.

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on July 14, 2017 at 3:49am

Thanks for posting. Definitely has a point - we tend to get grouped together as if we are all doing what annoys drivers even if drivers break the laws same/more % than we do.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on July 14, 2017 at 4:29am

Dang. I generally trim URLs so all the tracking cruft on the end is elided. Does this help?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/australia/the-war-on-cycli...

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on July 14, 2017 at 4:50am

Not a Ning issue but a Viglink issue - Viglink sets up links to retailers when products are mentioned. Rare case where it attached to a media article. I went in and added something to the HREF tag that should fix it. 

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on July 14, 2017 at 6:16am

I did, though I didn't try clicking the link through The Chainlink interface.

  • I already had the NYT article displayed
  • After trimming all the mysterious parameters after the "?", I made sure I could view that as well.

It seems odd that Ning (or Viglink, whatever that is) would mess with a URL so badly that it no longer works.

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