Here is a smart 16 year old. I wish her well and completely understand her point of view. An excerpt:

The hostility I’ve encountered on the streets of Toronto as a cyclist is astonishing. Once, biking home from the beach a car sped by so closely that its side-view mirror actually brushed my thigh! If this idiot had pulled any closer to me, I would have been knocked off my bike. And for what? So he could be the first to wait at the red light 100 metres away?