Originally Posted by JeffOYB

I think it takes all the approaches together.

When you say 'cyclists take control' to me that means push to have public orgs do 10X as much bike educating and PSAs. We can push PR and legislation and driver's ed content.

Protests also still seem good when needed. Or mass movements of some kind -- like MADD really raised awareness of drunk driving in the 90's.

It seemed to me that CM was entirely needed in the 90's and that it won and that it has largely changed w the times and is now a social ride in most places. We had a CM in our area years ago. It won, the city accepted bikers, now the same ride has become a social ride. Our local urban drivers never bother our social rides. But our lone riders still get both buzzed by oblivious/unskilled drivers and also sometimes menaced so change is still needed. There are several fronts to work on.