Sustainable Safety actually says that even buses and cars should be separated from each other when possible, a 12 t bus with 60 passengers, each 60 kg including any baggage, would be a total of about 15 t and tends to be more rigid than cars.
I've been having ridiculously hard times convincing people that the Dutch have emergency services able to operate on narrower roads and will not get into hold ups and can still go over speed humps, that yes we can afford it, no, our snow is not too expensive to clear from the cycle paths and that people can still cycle in the cold, even of less than -15 C. They feel like they are being pragmatic. It seems absurd to be even having to make these arguments, I try to point out their hypocrisy when they claim to have committed to Vision 0 and they refuse to even narrow 3.75 metre wide arterial road lanes. I can't even convince them to do things that would even do good for the drivers like roundabouts, let alone roundabouts with cycle paths around them. Bloody fools.
How does the electric detection of motor vehicles work, especially in relation to recognizing the driver/vehicle so they can be fined?
Erwin: I wondered the same. There seems to have been no foresight at all on the part of those who back the bus.
Robert: It's tough to be a campaigner. It's perhaps not surprising that people are generally resistant to change which they see as being beneficial only to an out-group of people unlike themselves but, as you've discovered, there is also opposition to change even if that results in benefits closer to home.
Mads: I'm fairly sure it's a camera with number-plate recognition. I'll go and have a look around and update the blog post.
This is a constant feature of human nature that is unlikely to change. Niccolò Machiavelli commented upon this at the beginning of the 16th century.
"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising partly from the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it."
Conclusion: Pilot projects are good.