Does it just have to start with cameras and prosecutions and stories about fellow residents being affected while they’re getting around by bike? ||

What might work, either directly or systemically?

I suspect the “fix” is less about catching the people doing this and more about desensitising people who are currently othering people on bikes… but there’s a lot of input fanning the flames of their anger. +

But it seems to have reached self-sustaining culture wars territory now, with some folk livid out of all proportion to the stimulus. And now there are several reports a week of people getting flat tyres from tacks on our lovely new bike lanes. +

The earliest examples I know here were on a cycleway that narrowed an arterial road.

I understand that this stressed people who were driving. I think the bike lanes copped the emotional flak from what was probably an intentional choice to pacify traffic by narrowing the road. +

Is there a shared definition of ego depletion that’s clearly _not_ fatigue? Because I get near the end of that article and think “Oh, that example’s a bit silly” followed by “Did they actually test for ethically-complex decision-making rather than (say) hard maths problems in the fatigue tests?”.

Wellington seemed to be making progress last year to make the non-arterial speed limit 30 km/h. That would have taken a bit of getting used to, but it would have changed the balance and risks of sharing roads.

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Aha! That’ll be the second fact that got merged into the incorrect statement about what Truman did in 1867 (actually when Andrew Johnson bought Alaska). I’m also seeing it reported that Woodrow Wilson explored options in 1917.

Thank you. I knew this happened before Truman was born, but couldn’t work out what nubbin of historical truth had gone through the wringer and ended up as that.