Fwd: [CSI Group] Essay: The Bicycle Driver's Dilemma

[Jim Baross]

The author of the essay "The Bicycle Driver's Dilemma" (see link below), Justin McMurtry, concludes with these claims.

"What genuine cycling advocacy looks like, to me, is teaching people to understand these dynamics — where the actual risks are, how to position themselves to be visible and predictable, how to communicate with motorists through [responsive] eye contact, lane position, and proper signaling. It looks like producing cyclists who can ride anywhere, not just on the corridors where someone has painted a stripe. It looks like the thing I was doing on West Alabama in 1992, before anyone had decided to “improve” it [with a separated bikeway]."

"That approach [bicycle driving education such as CyclingSavvy or even SmartCycling] doesn’t scale into a political movement very easily, but it does produce capable cyclists — people who have discovered, sometimes to their own surprise, that riding in traffic is not only manageable but genuinely pleasant, once you understand how it works."

Jim Baross

CABO President

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From: Justin McMurtry <bi...@jdmc.net>
Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Subject: [CSI Group] Essay: The Bicycle Driver's Dilemma
To: <cyclingsavvy...@googlegroups.com>

Hi all,

If you haven't seen it already, please check out the new essay I recently published on my Substack blog, On Further Reflection. Comments are welcome, especially on Substack.

The Bicycle Driver's Dilemma

Thanks,

~ Justin

(Houston, TX)

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