Stiffer fines and penalties are not the right tool to resolve this. If you want to resolve this, the key is encouraging bike riding by, for example, infrastruc

Stiffer fines and penalties are not the right tool to resolve this. If you want to resolve this, the key is encouraging bike riding by, for example, infrastructure improvements like wider shoulders that make biking easier and safer. The problem is that there aren’t that many bikes on the road so people don’t learn to look for them. Nobody wants to kill a bike rider. But if you only have a bike rider nearby .01% of the time you are on the road, it’s going to be very hard to learn to spend the extra time to look for them the other 99.99% of the time, when doing so constantly feels like a wasted effort.