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[Closed] Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them.

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[url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/dont-make-bicyclists-more-visible-make-cars-stop-running-them-over/?postshare=6451451854476745&tid=ss_fb-bottom ]An interesting article[/url] in the Washington Post about responsibility for cyclists' safety, that I suspect will resonate with a few of us.


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 4:17 pm
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I guess I was wrong.

Who is TJ's successor?


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 9:32 pm
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Everyone is responsible for the safety of all other road users.

Not rocket science, but I've not killed anyone yet, or been killed by them.


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 9:39 pm
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It's just a well worn point, that's all. Although to be fair, it's a US article and the situation there is much worse. I read something interesting a few years ago suggesting car companies lobbied for measures to promote car dependency in thebUS, jay-walking laws being an example of the kind of thing this guy is complaining about. Cars dangerous? Get rid of the peds!


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 9:42 pm
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Interesting enough. Its a pernicious thing though and it starts with those ****ing stickers...


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 9:55 pm
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On the positive front, for the first time I can remember, cycling is on the increase in the UK and the anti-car debate is more lively than I can ever remember it. There does seem to finally be a national conversation about how anti-social, anti-social driving is... Social Media helping a lot IMO

So hopefully between now and self-driving cars becoming the dominant means of motorised personal transport (10-20 years?), the tide will continue to slowly turn against the status quo.


 
Posted : 04/01/2016 10:01 pm

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