I get why you say that, and I don't even disagree, but I would like to point out that it will only be partially effective.

I live in Cleveland, so the only thing seperating us from Canada is a lake. That should give you an idea of how cold it is right now.

Well, people are assholes, and don't shovel their snow. We had a pretty decent snow storm last week. About 2 feet in 3 days. In response to this, nobody has shoveled their sidewalks, so now everybody walks in the streets.

Last night I saw a guy walking on the street. Plenty of room around him. He was as far to the curb as he could be. 4 lane road (2 per direction).

A guy came around the corner and nearly hit him. They get into a screaming match about how he should be on the sidewalk with 2 feet of snow.

So the guy backs his car up, drives straight at him, and tried to hit the brakes before his car hit him. Well, icy road meant that his brakes didn't mean shit. He just straight up hit and run'd him.

Thats when I started recording with my phone. He drives off several hundred feet, pulls into a driveway, turns around, and then drives by again with his middle finger at this guy who's still on the ground.

This exercise would help and work for those who have empathy. You just have to remember, not everyone has empathy.

In a lot of countries it is normal that children and teenagers use bicycles. Once teenagers start taking driving lessons they should already be aware of this. Refresher courses would be more helpful.

Every single parking fine, driving fine, citation.. whatever. Should come with a mandatory 2 weeks of cycling.

Both are must situations

but the bus driver is, you know, the person driving the bus; and thus the person who can think "hey there's a person cycling on the road ahead, let's slow down and get as far away from them as i can while passing, because i don't want to make them shit themselves in fright"

Well as part of LEO training they bring in a lead box, and slowly winch up the lid revealing 12oz of fentanyl in a sealed glass container. Only the people that pass out for at least 30 seconds are kept as officers.

Practically the same thing.

That's a part of S.E.A.L. training

Busses driven by people who have no idea what it's like to be a cyclist around busses ARE a problem, when the occur.

Yes, but also it's important to remember that there are no such things as "car lanes," only general-purpose ones. Even if good bike infrastructure exists, cyclists are still allowed to ride in those lanes, which means dangerous close passes by buses could still occur.

I feel like some kind of skit show needs to do this. Its the same puppet but with an orange safety vest and a hard hat.

I remember Happy Tree Friends made some YouTube Copyright School videos, but I've thought they'd have a real opportunity making public safety warnings.

Ok so don't pass them in the same lane

Whenever there's no bike lane, and the sidewalk is busy/unusable, I just bike right in the middle of the lane so they need a different lane to pass. Not sharing a lane with cars, they're crazy and will just drive off after hitting you.

(when a city is designed well, most cases there is no need for a bike lane, but I agree more bike lanes please!)

I do not want to be doing this to bike riders

You don't have to, do you? I'm not sure it works as well for a bus because they are wider, but if you drive a car there's the option of passing too closely or waiting for enough space in traffic to pass safely. Does that not work in a bus? Would waiting for a gap take hours in a bus?

I don't know if you're in the US, but here you are required to keep at least 4' of clearance between yourself and a bicyclist when passing them. If you can't pass safely while leaving that much of a cushion, then you don't pass them until you can do it safely and legally. This is even on the CDL test (I'm a school bus driver myself). Safety first, schedule second.

Personally, I don't pass cyclists unless I can safely go all the way into the other lane. 4' is really not enough space -- at that distance a cyclist could easily still fall under your wheels if they suddenly go down. That being said, for me the most dangerous situation is when cyclists ride on the wrong side of the road, against traffic. This is completely insane behavior but something I'm seeing more and more often where I live and work.

They weren't forced to be on the road, they've fought tooth and nail to put themselves on the road with you.

I can't tell you how many arguments I've gotten into because somehow cyclists feel like they belong next to the 4+ton rolling metal, instead of risking gasp having to slow down for a pedestrian on the sidewalk every once in a while.

There are laws in some places written about cyclists facing fines if they so dare to use the sidewalk even when it is clearly the safer choice, but no, they have wheels so they must use the asphalt. I will always gladly risk the fine before my health or life. Use the sidewalk folks, learn to deal with the pedestrians.

Edit: the replies below just make my point

vertigo, an incoherence because of a wall moving beside, a dizziness I have never experienced anything like that. Could you just be instinctually afraid/stressed from riding near buses?

fear is when the bus is a meter behind you or cutting your way to turn left!

Fear is when you're about to take a narrow blind corner and you hear a bus honking from the other side.

it's more like a vertigo, an incoherence because of a wall moving beside, a dizziness.

In other words, an exercise bike probably doesn't give the full effect, compared to being passed by a bus on a real bike that you have to actually balance.

Do they have quotas or some other pressure to reach the stop unreasonably quickly?

That's when I squeeze by anyways and touch their car in the process.

I think the reason it's done on an exercise bike is to be able to do it in a controlled and safe environment. The purpose is to teach the drivers, not potentially run them over.

I think the reason it's done on an exercise bike is to be able to do it in a controlled and safe environment. The purpose is to teach the drivers, not potentially run them over.

That's not the point being made.