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How can we make drivers behave better?
By saying "You've won!" and getting cyclists off the main carriageway?
The separation will just lead to a greater sense of entitlement (for the motorist) and increase conflict in the millions of miles of UK roads where segregated cycle lanes cannot be added (due to cost and/or lack of space).
Greenbank
Yup, the general attitude to cycling in the UK stinks.
How can we make drivers behave better?
Asking them to 'be nice' does not work.
And it's not something that can be easily enforced, definitely not with current police priorities.
Here's why I think building proper bike lanes will help:
(1) The evidence (cited above, ignoring outdated reports from 20+ years ago) shows that building bike lanes will increase the number of people cycling.
(2) The more people who cycle, the more likely it is that drivers will either be cycling themselves, or have close family members who cycle. The more 'normal' cycling becomes.