NOLA City Council passes $300 minimum fine for bike lane violations

The bravery (or maybe stupidity) of some cyclists while they're on a road with cars astonishes me. The confidence they have in the people driving around them is crazy. I could never do the busy city bike riding thing.

When I was a teenager my uncle was run over by a car while running in a city...ever since I seem to have what's probably an exaggerated fear of being around cars while not in a car. Even when I'm running on a sidewalk in an area with very few cars I still worry about being hit by a car. Biking amongst cars on a busy city street, or driving around cyclists...scares me silly.