[XAP]Bob wrote: .... Don't see why that makes a fleshbag look like a problem. Makes cars look problematic to me - two cyclists are far less likely to collide.
What I'm trying to say is that the decisionmakers are looking down the other end of the telescope. If car drivers playing dodgems (or more accurately bumper cars) among themselves are not counted, they are not an official problem. To the extent that vulnerable road users inevitably figure prominently in the casualties - they become the problem. Down that end of the telescope, the cause of the casualties is not apparent. So, we have measures to make street furniture as forgiving as possible and vulnerable road users are then the focus. Oblige "peds" to use urine-soaked subways, or meandering footbridges. Shove cyclists up on the footway with the "peds". Any cyclists who persist in riding on the road are exhorted to wear helmets, hi-viz and all the rest of it.