Bluetreefrog

Love your sense of humour. :-)

Being nice to people makes them happy to be around you.

But we can have some fun along the way, and it does change behaviour for a bit.

This has been the go-to for decades and it's not working. I feel like we need to be prepared to engage with the system, but make it clear we are not just passive consumers. Something that becomes viral maybe?....

It's almost as if, hear me out here, the Norwegians are right....

OP, please reword title of your post to be an open-ended question.

OP, please reword to be an open-ended question.

OP, please reword to be an open-ended question.

OP, please re-word to be an open-ended question.

OP, please reword to be an open ended question.

Edit: Locking.

Oh look, Mossad has an account on Lemmy!

I wasn't saying you were excusing the behaviour. I was saying that many, including the media do.

So what practical measures do you suggest to stop this from happening again?

Every accident I have been to (and I've been to a lot), was either caused by driver impatience (driving faster than the conditions, drink driving, fiddling with phone, etc) or deliberate intent (suicide). The former is a driver education and training problem. We need to train young drivers to accept delays as OK. As a former motorcycle rider, I taught my kids the importance of patience and driving as if the rest of the world was out to kill you. Every driver should have to do (and pass) a defensive driving course. Also, too many bad habits are passed from parent to child, so every driver should have to spend a prescribed amount of time with registered driving instructors. In Germany, you cannot get your drivers licence without spending time with registered driving instructors, and if you fail your test it costs 400-500 euros to repeat, so there's a good incentive to learn the skills correctly the first time.

This was an organised event with signage etc.. There are many things that could be done, but better driver education to overcome the "bikes shouldn't be on roads" mentality would be a good start. Dedicated cycle lanes and a loosening of the ridiculous restrictions on e-bikes in NSW are some other things that would help imho.