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[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What do you mean, "educate cyclists on how bike lanes work"? They are there and you ride on them.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There’s the problem, that’s all you think it is? Is that why cyclists are unable to signal and yield and have any sort of common courtesy. Why is education a dirty word to cyclists?

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago

I'm dutch and grew up in the Netherlands, they're so ubiquitous here you learn at a young age and so many people are cycling it is easy to learn from looking at what others do and still we have kids do an exam in the last year before high school, they have to learn the rules and cycle a certain route while people in plain clothes check if you know them.

On the other hand, that is necessary because kids would otherwise learn the rules way later when trying to get their drivers license. I can imagine someone who knows the rules for cars would feel belittled by having to be educated on something 'inferior' after they already got their drivers license.

But I wonder, do people not follow the rules because they don't know them (= they need to be educated) or because they don't like them (= the rules need to be enforced)?