sic NYTimes : "Every year, the war of the wheels breaks out in the sweet summer months, as four-wheelers react with aggravation and anger to the two-wheelers competing for the same limited real estate. This summer, the number of new cyclists has increased strongly across the country with estimates that 131,000 people cycle daily in New York, up 77 percent since 2000.

Newbies are lured by improved bike lanes as well as the benefits of exercise, a smaller carbon footprint and gas savings. But with more bikes on the road, the driver-cyclist hostility seems to be ratcheting up, especially because legions of new cyclists are simply inexperienced. We’ve had a car culture for so long and suddenly the roads become saturated with cyclists trying to save gas - no one knows how to share the road."

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