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We circulate the 'slow down and give cyclists space', and 'cyclists belong on the road' on every second bus and billboard. Everyone knows it they just don't do it.

I think defensive driving courses are a good idea for all drivers however they still won't stop this. The issue is complacancy and as you said, culture. Getting people to slow down on a quiet corner on a quiet road is near impossible in todays environment. To be clear they should do it, I just know they won't.

Driver education doesn't work, cos it's a cultural issue, youre right on the habits being passed from parent to child including the "just overtake this cyclist now" habits. This culture will be passed down irrespective of who does the driver training. And I'd also like to say on a sidenote, some consistency in driver training across states would be friggin amazing.

As a motocyclist (youre braver than i, for me driver behaviour will keep me off all motorbikes not on a farm) you would have experienced first hand bad driver behaviours even though motorbike messaging and education has been around for yonks.

That's why we need to take more proactive measures now like the escort cars (wilst maintaining the exisiting messaging), until that cultural shift occurs, which unfortunately in this country could be decades.

So what practical measures do you suggest to stop this from happening again?

People aren't reading Lemmy as they are driving from Armidale to heed your warning. What I was doing was suggesting some practical steps to protect cyclists. So that if perhaps someone was thinking of doing an event like this they wouldn't be relying on motorists 'just slowing down' cos it's not gonna happen. And will likely result in another tragic accident.

I'm not excusing the behaviour as you claim, I'm saying we need to do more to protect cyclists, cos motorists won't 'just slow down' (even moreso on country roads such as this)

Not a carsupremacist fuckwad, however I think we should be using this as a lesson to prevent reoccurrence, clearly this is a narrow road, and narrow country roads are usually 100km/h zones, you can come around a corner and have no idea, theres a car, let alone a gaggle of bikes there (not to mention the riders that sometimes ride 3 abreast). Its a setup for disaster.

Whoever was organising the race should've organised an escort car to advise cyclists are ahead (I find this personally super helpful), else arranged a road closure. Changing every speed zone in this country to 50km/h will not stop this from occuring, and it is impractical to boot. Should the driver have slowed down of course, will the majority of drivers who have been driving through the country for the last hour and a half, on a relatively barron country road slow down? of course not.

Remeber our pollies are to busy focusing on re-election, so they'll do nothing to help us, so we've gotta do the steps ourselves.

This guy is playing a cheap video game and pressed "a" to strafe

Jokes on you, No loved ones, so who cares if you pull the lever or not, go have a frothy instead.

The enshitification of Firefox continues 😢

Chest hair.

I Really Want to Stay at Your House - Rosa Walton (YouTube) 😭

You're completely right on Australia being extremely racist when it wants to be. However the yes vote is a bad example. It was a bad proposal, of major changes, and segregated society further.

It was however a perfect example of Canberra dictating to indigenous people how Canberra will help them without guidance or support from indigenous communities, or addressing the real issues, such as closing the gap.

I wouldn't even leave a condom, its not like they'd need it.

There's lots of people laughing, but I bet they're cool af

Whilst I imagine incredibly inefficient, its so beautiful..!

Looks like they said "We need someone who can design our city"

One guy "I played a lot of simcity 2000, hold my beer"