Matthew's Journal

We get to watch (very occasionally, I'll admit) the interesting spectacle of people cycling down the shoulder in the opposite direction to traffic. Freaks me out every time.

There are quite a lot of cyclists in our near vicinity, and all use the hard shoulder (in lieu of an actual marked bike lane, which is coming with the current set of road improvements), which as you mentioned is full of debris from the road. I guess this is why they often cycle right along the white line, but I wish they wouldn't - it's a 35 mph road which most people drive at 45, and if there is on-coming traffic there isn't enough room to over take them leaving a gap I feel comfortable with. If I instead wait until the oncoming traffic has passed, or slow down to overtake a little closely, the traffic behind me attempts to climb onto my back bumper.

There are times I really hate driving. It's rare, but it happens.