>>2044957>>2044961I didn't mean that so far-reaching, I was merely pissed about the flippant "just share the road" statement with respect to separated bike paths on these suburban/exurban roadsides not being there which leads to death for those that try to "share the road" as is technically legal and envisioned.
It's just about that, I didn't mean that everything has or should be built separately.
Competent drivers are important as is holding them to account when they do fucked up shit.
I reflexively thought "getting the license again and again is way too expensive" but maybe that's the kind of pressure needed to cause a shift in traffic planning and usage here in Germany.
Then again, I doubt something like this will happen here given how corrupt- I mean lobbyism wormed its way into the legislative here.
It's a complicated issue and it ties into so many other issues that it's hard to know where to start or stop talking and what can be realistically done and changed.
Just recently I thought how friction and fear of not finding a new apartment if you leave your current one also poses hurdles to good public transit.
If you can easily move close to wherever you are working and move again pretty easily without having to fear exorbitant rent then it'd be much more realistic to have way more people taking the bus/train or cycling or even just walking which could turn a vicious cycle of lack of usage, lack of investment, lack of awareness, lack of improvement into a virtuous cycle of increased participation and usage, interest in transit and appreciation of urban design by traveling <10Km to work instead of >30Km which vastly limits the transport options and makes it harder to have public transit make sense and be pleasant/convenient to use
But back to your point: I agree that there could be more done to create better drivers but infrastructure design is just as important imo
