Originally Posted by
Daniel4
The question isn't or shouldn't be about bike lanes. The question should be what to do about all the bad driving? If, in one form or another, the answer is "nothing", then the subject of separated bike lanes inevitably appears.
The U.S. has been trying to change driver behavior for 70 years. Yet the U.S. today has the most dangerous road system and highest crash, serious injury and fatality rates of all developed countries. And by a wide margin. A bicycle rider in the U.S. is, per mile ridden, 11 times as likely to be killed as a rider in The Netherlands.
The former head of NACTO said "If only every driver would obey every law and rule at all times then we would have safer roads and fewer fatalities." The U.S. depends on drivers to make roads safe.
Dutch (and most EU) engineers say that driver behavior is too difficult to control so roads must be designed to enforce safer driver behavior. More:
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2...inable-safety/. Dutch and EU depend on good engineering to make roads safe.
Guess who has the safest roads?