I quite like this. Certainly a lot more than asking motorists to imagine I'm a horse.
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Road share video
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Posted 9 years ago #
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More pointless soft measures, this stuff is nice and fluffy, makes people feel good. However, without measure to reduce motor traffic speed and volumes where they are mixed with cyclists (and where speed and volume can't be reduced, provide septate infrastructure). Laws to place the onus on drivers to take responsibility for their actions by making them liable to pay compensation in the event of a collision (and there by giving a clear incentive to avoid collisions). They have absolutely no affect, just like asking drivers to think of cyclists as horses...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Disagree entirely. Part Fi the problem on our roads is the dehumanisation. 'Cyclists'. 'Drivers'. Not 'people'. People see people differently if they see them as people, and not in some hated box. Tribalism, which this seeks to break through. And it's not the case that if you have this advert you can have nothing else. Have decent infrastructure as well.
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Unless you are going to have infrastructure alongside every single centimetre of the road network, then at some point in time cyclists WILL have to share roads with drivers. So this message has pertinence.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Agree with WC. If the message can be put across reasonably well and humanise those on bikes to those in cars then that's a good thing. I feel its more of benefit on country roads or fast roads rather than in towns mind...
Posted 9 years ago #
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