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[–] Ballistic86@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone stops at a stop sign. Cars, buses, pedestrians, motorized wheelchairs, and bikes. This is not an issue that needs separate rules for cyclists. Perhaps they can re-evaluate that intersection, does it need a sign? If cyclists can easily coast through the intersection, the need for a stop sign is up for discussion. Perhaps a Yield sign.

My area has lights for intersections with more than 2 lanes per direction of travel, roundabouts for smaller busy roads, and most of the residential intersections don’t have signage. Stop signs are, mostly, used to slow traffic down.

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I understand the need to obey traffic laws on a bicycle, but treating them the same as a 2+ ton projectile that can turn humans into meat paste or cause tens of thousands of dollars in damage to a structure in seconds by effortlessly adjusting your right ankle by 25° is absurd.

Fines should be proportional to the potential damage of the Infraction.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not about if the cyclist hit something, it's about the possibility of something hitting the bicyclist.

If a car, following the law, took its right of way through the intersection and hit a cyclist who wasn't following the law... Well it's fine to say the cyclist was at fault, but he's still been hit by a car.

Traffic laws are there to protect everyone from each other.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Except, as others have pointed out in this discussion, it's actually safer to let cyclists use stop signs as yield signs.

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