The "arrogant aggressive bicycle arseholes, who hog the middle of the lane on 2 lane roads when there is a perfevctly good 4 foot shoulder/bicycle lane to accommodate them" are generally safer there than on the 4 foot shoulder(which generally is 4 foot wide in some places and non-existant in others), because motorists frequently drift onto the shoulder, and because they turn on to cross streets without looking, let alone yielding to the cyclist.

The road that runs by here has a wonderful cycling lane on each side, replete with signs and special lane markings. There are also two "white bike" memorials to cyclists who were killed while using those lanes.