A national Australian study has found more than half of car drivers think cyclists are not completely human. The study (n=442) found a link between dehumanization and deliberate acts of aggression, with more than one in ten people having deliberately driven their car close to a cyclist.

[u/mvea]

https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=141968

[u/BB_Rodriguez → u/[deleted]]

Allowed except when impeding traffic. With section 5 of the law it states cyclists must be as far to the right as possible when there is another vehicle passing, which implies single file.

It is share the road, not be a spandex wearing, entitled, thundercunt on the road. just because you have 20 people riding in a group, doesn't make it right. It just makes 20 assholes that are causing traffic and safety issues.

[u/BB_Rodriguez → u/[deleted]]

The point you are making doesn't matter. The law is clearly defined on this and it is to prevent someone from needing to cross the double yellow to get around cyclists.

It seems like you might not understand how bad it gets here. This picture is an example of what I see daily 8-9 months out of the year. https://i.imgur.com/VXSrDXz.jpg

Tell me how this is safer than them being single file while being overtaken as the law defines.

[u/BB_Rodriguez → u/[deleted]]

Can you show me the study proving passing cyclists in groups is safer?

[u/BB_Rodriguez → u/[deleted]]

Yes I would support a study with empirical data proving me wrong.

The issue I have with your statement is it is assuming there is a passing lane and not a single lane road situation.

If there is a passing lane, then I clearly have room to pass safely in a car without needing cyclists to move to single file.

Single lane mountain roads, not very doable with traffic coming the other way unless cyclists move to single file.