Michael Boss, I can understand your frustration, but given the reality of increasingly-bad bad drivers in Anchorage, you are being dangerously unrealistic.  I’ll turn your arguments around for you, because it works both ways.  You say, “The fact that people would value the 5-10 minutes that they’re losing on their commute and use that as justification for putting another persons life at risk is almost incomprehensible.”  It’s incomprehensible to me why cyclists willingly up the odds of being hit by a vehicle by riding on roads that have excellent paved trails right beside them.  Good examples are Elmore and C Street.  How much time is a cyclist saving by not taking the far-safer paved trail?  And no, bicyclists having the legal right to the road really isn’t the end of it, but it just may be the end of their lives. That’s the reality that some cyclists seem to ignore.