I resat my driver’s license a few years ago to get a P endorsement, and having passed, the only thing the practical tester mentioned is that I kept to the right too much. I deliberately did this to keep my hurtling pile of death metal (car) away from people riding bikes. I remain unrepentant. Giving people riding bikes a “wide berth” seems to me like good general advise for starters, what other advise would you give?

Total lack of enforcement of our road code by our police (besides the occasional speeding ticket) is a major problem. We need to change that – road users (cyclists and motorists alike) flout the rules all the time, many don’t even know they’re doing it because it’s so commonplace. The police need to have that as part of their mandate. I’m fairly sure road users will brush up on – and follow – the road code pretty swiftly if it’s likely to cost them if they don’t.

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/search/label/sustainable%20safety

the other thing is a specific set of road rules for bikes. As we all know, bikes sit in a grey area between pedestrians and cars. Bikes ride on the road, but they have about 1% of the kinetic energy of a car at urban speed limits, which is why they can also share paths with pedestrians while a car never could. I’d like to see rules something like the following: free left turns at lights (like a give way sign) or across the top of a T-junction; rules for bikes and pedestrians, esp. allowing cycles to mix with pedestrians at pedestrian crossings at low speed (including lights for pedestrians); allowance for bikes on footpaths at low speed; clear rules for groups of cyclists not blocking lanes; etc. They probably aren’t very good examples, and may have problems, but some official sanction of things that most cyclists already do could help ease some of the tension between motorists and cyclists, plus it would make it clearer which rules may not be broken if the other rules were more sensible.