Cyclists have made my home city too stressful to live in any more

Not if you have loads of parking for bikes

Honestly the absolute arrogance, arse in the air so everyone must behold your crack as you race up the pavement (our space!) yet somehow still unembarrassable shit attitude of cyclists gives me the physical disgust shudders.

But you are the bad guy to pedestrians. We don't owe you our tolerance you can hurt and kill us and you don't NEED to ride your stupid bloody bicycle!

The whole point is that you leave it where you want. People are not going to leave the bike at an allocated space then walk the rest of their journey.

But you are the bad guy to pedestrians. We don't owe you our tolerance you can hurt and kill us and you don't NEED to ride your stupid bloody bicycle!

Turn car parking spaces into ebike parking (lime etc), fewer cars, more bikes

Lameborzoi - seriously we all get frustrated but if you are a cyclist that gives you a god given right to be an arsehole - attitudes like this is what gives cyclists a bad name

This is not so much a problem in the small town that I work in. Bikes are not that many, and the traffic is not bad and most bikers are just in the flow of traffic in town.

In the nearby city it is a shit show. There are clearly some problem demographics - mainly young university students, and the lycra crowd - both don't seem to care at all about other users of the road or spaces like parks.

However, there are systemic issues imo too. One is that the e-bikes and e-scooters are just so prone to being problematic. They go too fast, they are too quiet, and there are so damn many of them. They seem to come up so fast in places where you wouldn't expect that of a bike. It seems to me like they didn't think there would be so many, except they have given several companies contracts to leave them around town for anyone to use. They also massively litter up spaces when people drop them when they are done. It makes the city look like shit.

In general though their attempts at bike infrastructure seem to have gone really wrong somehow. They seem to be reaching for a kind of Dutch style bike utopia, but it's not worked out that way for various reasons, despite knocking down streets full of 100 year old trees to install bike lanes. There are more bikes but it's topped out and I think it's because they have made things too complicated. Which does not make people feel safe.

Omg it isn't having to see them. It is trying to navigate past them. They are just left on the pavement and I explained how we can't get past. I don't know why you consider this to be a trivial matter. Loads of complaints from pedestrians - blind people, people with buggies, mobility scooters, dogs in particular. Hammersmith and Fulham have removed the contract from Lime because of the problems.

It's another example of cyclists doing what they want regardless of anyone else. Are you genuinely ok with this?

Omg it isn't having to see them. It is trying to navigate past them. They are just left on the pavement and I explained how we can't get past. I don't know why you consider this to be a trivial matter. Loads of complaints from pedestrians - blind people, people with buggies, mobility scooters, dogs in particular. Hammersmith and Fulham have removed the contract from Lime because of the problems.

It's another example of cyclists doing what they want regardless of anyone else. Are you genuinely ok with this?

Oh no! You might have to see some bikes! The calamity!

That’s certainly been an issue where I live. It does depend on how determined the councillor with the transport portfolio is, but when they aren’t very determined it tends to go something like this.

Council proposes plans to make the roads safer.
People complain because it’s all for “the cyclists”.
Council waters down plans so they don’t meet engineering standards and builds routes.
Cyclists aren’t doing what people think they should be doing (because the plans have been watered down so the routes aren’t fit for purpose) and the routes are generally not very good (because they don’t meet engineering standards).
Despite having got what they wanted, the same people continue to complain about cyclists and council because the routes are rubbish.

Even where we have had road safety measures put it due to really dangerous driving or roads being structurally unsafe, some people still persist in believing / commenting that the sole reason for these changes is to get at drivers.

What’s so sad about this is that there are regular collisions and people are getting hurt or even killed and there are solutions such as Vision Zero. But if we can’t have a local debate focussed on facts and engineering standards, it’s very hard to do anything about this.

That's simply not true. They are everywhere round here - partly because we live near a school and a large park which people come to visit, and cycly in - so the pavements are very affected. If I were to go outside right now I would be able to see several.

One of my dogs is in a wheelchair and getting to the park is a nightmare because we can't get past on the pavement.

And it is because of these problems that many councils are becoming increasingly exasperated with Lime.

I may be in a "golden zone" for Lime bikes but it is certainly a real issue round here.