Stop Means Stop: How do we get bikers to obey traffic laws?
(via pantsblog): A nice look at urban planning and law enforcement techniques used to encourage bicycle usage. Here’s a neat little snippet: “Enter the Idaho stop-sign law. The rule, passed by the Idaho state legislature in 1982 and updated in 2005, essentially allows bikers to treat stop signs as yield signs. If a biker slows down and sees no cars coming, he or she can roll through a stop sign—a so-called “rolling stop.” The “Idaho stop” has become a rallying point for vehicularists and facilitators alike—a sort of Great Compromise for bicycles. Many vehicularists like it, because it acknowledges the proper role of bikes on the street rather than on silly pathways (although purists will say that it should apply to cars as well). Facilitators like it because it recognizes a core difference between cars and bikes: the importance of momentum. […] a follow-up study of the Idaho statute found that accidents involving bikes actually decreased the year after the law was passed and haven’t varied much since.”
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My usual villans are those double-length city busses making poorly calculated lane changes, I’ve had enough Indiana...
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I was just biking in the supposed ‘bike/bus’ lane on 9th street and, in addition to being tailed by a line of cars, the...
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Cyclists are supposed to remain in the bike lane. In the event there is no bike lane, they are supposed to stay in the...
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In my experience the only bikers who bike on sidewalks are delivery persons who are within a block of their restaurant -...
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Truth. However, on my way to work the other morning, some ass in a pick-up truck opened his door w/o looking and totally...
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If you can make cyclists who ride on the street feel less threatened and persecuted it’s likely they’d stop trying to...
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But then what about bicyclists that are in the middle of the fucking street going much lower than the speed limit? It...
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“Enter the Idaho stop-sign law. The rule, passed by the Idaho state legislature in 1982 and updated in 2005, essentially...
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I pretty much always do an Idaho Stop.
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Ah! I kind of like this. My comparable idea was to make people in cars at stop signs turn their engines off and get out...
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How do we get bikers off the sidewalk is the next order of business. I almost got run down by delivery people on bikes...
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I can’t get over the idea that people ride bikes in Idaho. or that Idaho has stop signs.
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