As someone who both rides a bike on the roads and drives a car, I understand both sides of the argument when it comes to bikes in the streets. If you need a good response to someone who argues that bikes shouldn&#8217;t be on the road, check out this Wired.com article on myths commonly believed by anti-bike drivers.{"id":3288,"date":"2015-01-28T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2014-12-28T04:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:34:26","slug":"respond-to-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/2015\/01\/28\/respond-to-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to Drivers Who Don&#8217;t Like Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who both rides a bike on the roads and drives a car, I understand both sides of the argument when it comes to bikes in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a good response to someone who argues that bikes shouldn&#8217;t be on the road, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/9-things-drivers-need-stop-saying-bikes-vs-cars-debate\">this Wired.com article<\/a> on myths commonly believed by anti-bike drivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/files\/2014\/12\/messengers1400-660x439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3289\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/files\/2014\/12\/messengers1400-660x439.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Kill The Messenger | Bryan Derballa\" width=\"660\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/files\/2014\/12\/messengers1400-660x439.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/files\/2014\/12\/messengers1400-660x439-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[99610,72627,99606,83306,39270,99603,78522,83435,44404,99601,66533,83377,66534,99605,22,39271,99602,66530,66531,66529,99604,83307,15142,872,99609,99608],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test","tag-anti-bike","tag-argument","tag-arguments","tag-bike-safety","tag-biking-at-dickinson","tag-biking-myths","tag-car","tag-cars","tag-center-for-sustainability-education","tag-commuting","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-club","tag-cyclist","tag-dangers","tag-dickinson","tag-dickinson-bikes","tag-myths","tag-ride","tag-riding","tag-road-bike","tag-road-bike-myths","tag-safety","tag-traffic","tag-transportation","tag-wired","tag-wired-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}