Originally Posted by noisebeam

I also disagree with HH on this one. But I also think it should not be driver focused, but driver/cyclist focused - i.e information provided/pushed where both sets get it equally. Kind of like that .pdf that from Massachusetts someone posted a week or two ago, but more in peoples faces than a pdf on a web site, like PSA on TV/Radio


Personally, while before I started cycling a lot (i.e. daily and for transport)I did cycle on occasion and I was courteous of cyclists. But even so I learned how to better drive around cyclist after cycling a lot. For example:
1. When making a right turn after passing a cyclist with good clearance I merge to the right into the shoulder or bike lane. (Of course if cyclist is ahead of me and will safely pass intersection before I could complete turn I will wait for them before passing them)
2. I did not know >3ft was a legal requirement, although I always passed with more anyway.

This is not a driving behavior change, but I now get far more irritated with cyclist breaking the laws that put me at risk of hitting them when I am driving. Before I was love and hugs about cyclists no matter what they were doing, now I find law breaking ones a nusiance especially after some close calls with wrong way cyclists at night with no lights, or cyclists flying off curb into sidewalk from behind a bus stop. Of course I feel bad about close calls, but I also yell at the cyclist doing wrong.

Al