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Ouch. This happened to me once
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:22:24 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: And those ignore interactions with bicyclists. I know a smart and dedicated bike advocate who has worked a long time trying to influence them to teach respect for cyclists, care when passing cyclists, etc. She's also lobbied to get appropriate questions into the official driver's license exams. She's been repeatedly rebuffed, but she keeps trying. She's holding the wrong end of the stick. No amount of instruction will give a driver the gut-deep understanding that is required when one's spine is making several life-and-death decisions per second. What she needs to do is to say "Our teenagers wrap themselves around trees and crash into other vehicles because they are trying to learn too many things at once. We should start teaching the rules of the road a few years ahead of time, and take our children out on their little bikes for on-the-road supervised practice. Then when they turn sixteen, all they will need to learn is how to control a car." *That* would give the drivers a gut-deep understanding of how bikes move. But it's quite out of the question, of course. It would cost almost as much as building ten feet of separated bike path, and you'd have to pay it again every year. No way the taxpayers would ever stand for such a ridiculous expense. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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