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@skydancer
Good take on this issue. Encouraging tolerance through education or design is a good way of putting this.
I suppose we are stuck in a chicken/egg situation since i suspect that were children to take to the roads, drivers would (have to) tolerate them, just like they tolerate wobbly tourists on hire bikes. However there is so much shouting about how dangerous everything is and we couldn't possibly allow children (and grannies?!) to cycle