More pedestrians means more people about for drivers to kill, though. The Netherlands still has a lot of people driving.
It’s less about driver empathy, and more about traffic calming. Bollards, chicanes, speed humps at intersections, etc. Streets that don’t feel safe to speed excessively on. Not making everything a shitty stroad, but having better differentiation between streets and roads.
More pedestrians means more people about for drivers to kill, though. The Netherlands still has a lot of people driving.
It’s less about driver empathy, and more about traffic calming. Bollards, chicanes, speed humps at intersections, etc. Streets that don’t feel safe to speed excessively on. Not making everything a shitty stroad, but having better differentiation between streets and roads.
Not just bikes has a pretty good YouTube video about stroads vs Dutch streets and roads