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I don’t think I am going out on a limb here when I say most of us are not too fond of traffic. In fact, I’ve never met anyone who got excited about driving through areas of dense traffic (except for the occasional suicidal cyclist who enjoys weaving through the cars). I’m safely going to assume that you feel the same.

Why do we hate traffic - it slows us down, we lose control as to when we will get to our destination, we lose the freedom to drive how we would like, we see the fumes from the car in front. We know that in all those other cars are people who are competing with you for space on the road.

But hang on….we love our cars - symbols of freedom, control, speed and independence.

So what do we love and what do we hate?????

This left me understandably bewildered. Do we not realize that we are part of the traffic? Did we invent the word traffic, so that we didn’t have to say I hate cars? After all, that’s all traffic is!!!!!

Maybe I’m missing something. I guess I’ll just keep weaving around the traffic on my bicycle until someone can enlighten me.