So what?
Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law.So?So do pedestrians. So do cars. The traffic laws should be different for bikes. And I don’t want to live in a place where pedestrians (or bikes) wait for the walk sign when so cars are coming.
Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law.So?So do pedestrians. So do cars. The traffic laws should be different for bikes. And I don’t want to live in a place where pedestrians (or bikes) wait for the walk sign when so cars are coming.
I rarely think Idaho as on the cutting edge of, well, anything. But they have it right when it comes to bikes and stop signs. Since 1982. It allows bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield and not always come to a complete stop. The Idaho Stop. Let’s do it here. And add red lights…
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I couldn’t have said it better myself. Cristopher DeWolf tells it like it is. Jaywalk all you want. Just look for bikes first.
It’s easy to say bikes shouldn’t bike the wrong way down one-way streets, but what’s the guy going short distances supposed to do? You want your egg rolls hot and crunchy, right? Well the guy delivering on the bike has to get to your place. Let’s say he’s at 57 and 10th and you’re just…
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I slept on Sullivan’s piece and today read some of the anti-bike comments following his article. Admittedly Sullivan is better than most because he rides a bike and because his rules are really generally quite reasonable. But the comments point out a basic problem with the “bikes-should-follow-the-rules” position. These are some of my rules: Be…
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This was just left in a comment. It got me so riled up I thought I’d reprint it here. Jamie writes: A woman on a bike who didn’t stop for a red light almost hit me and my dog while we were crossing the street. We had a walk sign. There was no option for…
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The New Yorker piece on bikes has this crazy guy in the article who was all into the importance of everybody obeying the law—especially bikes. Even though this freak had no problem littering his cigarette butts while ranting about other people (say in German accent:) not following the rules! [I have to give some props…
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It always pisses me off when people complain about bikes running red lights and not obeying traffic laws. Traffic laws are there for cars. Cars kill people. Not bikes. We wouldn’t need red lights if it weren’t for cars. Running a red light on a bike is akin to jaywalking: nominally illegal but something we…
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