03-28-2018, 04:18 PM
(03-28-2018, 03:13 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(03-28-2018, 02:31 PM)plam Wrote: Cars: The problem is that criminal liability while driving a car seems to be extraordinarily hard to establish. You could be civilly liable and forced to pay money, but not criminally liable. And if you hit another car, the other car is relatively well protected, so the more serious charges would tend to come up less often.
Which in turn basically invalidates the whole premise of bicycle lanes. This is saying that, legally, we need bicycle lanes to be separated from motorized traffic by Jersey barriers or bollards. Unless drivers are legally required to drive carefully and avoid hitting non-motorized users of the road, the only thing they’ll understand is large immoveable lumps of concrete.
If you give me a choice between enforcing something through physics or through laws, I'll choose physics any day.
Having said that, even flexibollards probably have an effect, through both safety-in-numbers and reducing the risk that drivers infringe.