How to make the roads safer?

In Holland they have the opposite approach to liability to most countries including ours and Norway.

The Dutch philosophy is "Cyclists are not dangerous; cars and car drivers are; so cars should take the responsibility for avoiding collisions with cyclists. This implies that car drivers are almost always liable when a collision with a bicycle occurs and should adapt their speed when bicycles share the roads with motorists"

go and tell everyone in positions of authority that^
we can take strength from it.

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    I just don't think this helps at all. The number of times I've seen fluorescent clad organ donors, shaking a fist at a car after having made a turn into the car's path without even the most cursory of signals is just frightening.... Take some responsibility for yourself and everything falls into place.

In response to CB #99.Not being brave enough to jump reds does not come into it.I have too much respect for the effort my Mother & Father invested in my formative years and for the skill & knowledge of the medical profession that finally got me on my feet and walking at age 7yrs.This has made it possible for me to look back on some of the plonkers that I know(new-past tense:-deceased)who did not have any regard for any aspect of their risky pastimes.As for not being brave enough to swear,Excuse me,I was brought up in one of the "hardest" parts of Liverpool,where the power and content of your ability to F & Blind was often a precursor to dishing some ones already ugly face in- with a Knuckle Duster.I was saved from a life of crime by a good education,and the knowledge of easier ways of earning money than playing Tick with Hatchets,and constantly looking over my shoulder.Coupled to that, the ability to to tell someone to go away in short jerks without failing my educational achievements, helps considerably to keep my 64yr old body moving in the direction of becoming a Centenarian Cyclist.Happy & Safe Cycling to you all.