Ministers want 60% of children walking or cycling to school by 2035

[Badger_Boom]

I see this in different situations: you end up with a sort of natural selection where the entitled drivers who ignore the rules are by definition are aggressive and dangerous.

As an aside, I bet the teachers could tell you which parents act this way without ever meeting them...

I discovered the correlation between rule ignoring and punchiness when I dared to criticise a parent's pavement parking last year.

 

[Electric_Andy]

cycle lanes would - I think - probably speed up cars a bit

Oh I agree - it's not the cyclists fault that cars have to wait for a safe opportunity to over-take. If they had their own bit of road 1.5M+ away from cars, it would be fine. I could also say the same about buses, but the difference is that buses can't be killed if a driver runs into them

 

[Electric_Andy]

Actually we do not want them speeding up. We want them slowing down, paying attention, and driving in a safe competent manner.

Just speaking for myself. I don't think speeding up is what is required; I'd be happy doing 20mph all the way without stopping. it's the stop/start that really grates on me whilst in a car, all the time thinking "I'm cooking my clutch, I'm wrecking my starter motor, I'm idling and wasting fuel" etc. A free-flowing 20mph with only the occasional pause for a roundabout would be ideal

 

[Drago]

I discovered the correlation between rule ignoring and punchiness when I dared to criticise a parent's pavement parking last year.

Id have ripped their arm off, stuck it up their arris, and paraded them up the road like a giant lollipop while I made them repeat "I am not as high up the foot chain as I thought I was."

Sometimes I really would like someone to have a go, but being a bit of a unit cowards tend to pucker up rather than take a swing.