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Brisbane drivers face bicycle-awareness lessons to curb road rage, encourage cycling

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1226209204572
Brisbane drivers face bicycle-awareness lessons to curb road rage, encourage cycling

BRISBANE drivers will be taught to curb their road rage towards cyclists in a bid to boost the number of two-wheeled commuters.

Just days after Tour de France-winning cyclist Cadel Evans branded Brisbane drivers ``unnecessarily nasty'', Lord Mayor Graham Quirk rolled out a new plan to increase cyclists in the city.

City Hall wants 20 per cent of commuters to walk or cycle by the year 2026 to help cut traffic congestion and said all road users needed to show better etiquette when sharing the bitumen.

``It aims to make active travel in Brisbane safer, more accessible and connected, create walking and cycling-friendly suburbs,'' he said.

Private-sector classes in ``cycling confidence'' are one of the proposals from the draft Brisbane Active Transport Strategy 2012-2026, along with a plan to educate drivers on safety awareness.

The plan also recommends bike path maps for smartphones, bike pit-stop stations with pumps and tools, and the construction of more cycleways away from cars and walkers.

The report will be released for consultation next week.

Yesterday Cadel Evans said this

"Some of the drivers were unnecessarily nasty," he said.

"We certainly have a lot of riders (in Brisbane) and most of the people ride very early here. When they get abuse from the cars, I can understand why (they ride so early)."
That’s it. That is all he said.

Now read the comments section of that article -> Comments Note that 409 comments is pretty much a record for this newspaper

The Brisbane Courier Mail knows when it’s on a winner so a day later they stir the pot again with this rubbish

Backlash to Cadel Evans' blast over 'nasty' Brisbane drivers. There’s no story there but as of posting this thread there were 171 comments. Which I point out is very high by normal standards.


It’s funny though in a pathetic kinda way because they print these two stories the same day

Car drives into supermarket in Caboolture

600 accidents over 5 years clog up Logan stretch of M1 - Comments prove that some car users are aggressive to other car users as well, not just cyclists. For clarity Logan “lower socio-economic” is a separate city to Brisbane. Also note that there are only 40 comments in an article about real traffic problems but 5 times that if it’s anti-cyclist. Pathetic
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