For 30 years, there was only one place in North America that as willing to try an experiment in cycling safety by letting cyclists treat stop signs as yield signs. But in recent years, this experim...
Like, I don’t care what the signs say, every single time I’ve seen a cyclist cross a street when the red lights were against them, I have also seen a car come to a screeching halt to not run them over while they are impeding traffic.
You are morally and ethically superior for bicycling instead of driving a car, but you are also unnecessarily risking your life if you do not follow the traffic laws that the cars follow.
A red light is a different scenario entirely. In that situation, one direction of traffic is able to assume that nothing will impede them, and crossing into that traffic is indeed dangerous.
But that is not what this video and law change it covers is about. This is about laws changing specifically to allow bicycles to perform rolling stops if an intersection with a stop sign is clear or if they reach it first, as this avoids them having to regain their momentum.
I have never seen a place that picks between stop and yield signs by any sane rule. I imagine the US isn’t an exception. What they seem to do that is uncommon is enforcing the difference.
Like, I don’t care what the signs say, every single time I’ve seen a cyclist cross a street when the red lights were against them, I have also seen a car come to a screeching halt to not run them over while they are impeding traffic.
You are morally and ethically superior for bicycling instead of driving a car, but you are also unnecessarily risking your life if you do not follow the traffic laws that the cars follow.
A red light is a different scenario entirely. In that situation, one direction of traffic is able to assume that nothing will impede them, and crossing into that traffic is indeed dangerous.
But that is not what this video and law change it covers is about. This is about laws changing specifically to allow bicycles to perform rolling stops if an intersection with a stop sign is clear or if they reach it first, as this avoids them having to regain their momentum.
It’s in the video description.
I have never seen a place that picks between stop and yield signs by any sane rule. I imagine the US isn’t an exception. What they seem to do that is uncommon is enforcing the difference.