Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
The John Forester education method - he personally coached and tested every student to pass his own test (which meant something to him and nobody else) and compared the test "results" of these coached students who know they are being tested, against the "results" of his own "hidden test" of strangers passing by who were unaware that they were being "tested" by Forester. Needless to say there is no follow up by Forester to see if any Forester student ever used any of the "learned" procedures after the certificate was awarded, or if the tested students' safety record changed in any way, or was any better than anybody else.
Anyone who believes this procedure demonstrates anything but the questionable quality of John Forester's methods of devising and evaluating safety programs should sign up immediately.
The motivation for ILTB's endless denigration of the Effective Cycling Program appears to be his hatred of any program that demonstrates that most people on bicycles can be taught to obey the standard rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. The demonstrated practicality of a system that expects cyclists to obey the rules of the road, and should be trained to do so, jeopardizes ILTB's ideological goal of a system in which cyclists can operate incompetently, unrestrained by the rules of the road.