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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 9, 2015 at 7:22am

A: To get to the other side.

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Permalink Reply by Marc A. Irwin on January 9, 2015 at 7:38am

She does have things pretty close.  On the subjects of stop signs and signaling, I have found cars and cyclists are equally guilty.  After hearing one particularly critical newscast about cyclists, I sat at an intersection where one busy street terminated in another.  Counting 100 cars only 17 stopped, and each of those were challenged by cross traffic.  Of the same 100 cars only 50 used turn signals although all of them had to turn.  It seems that the Idaho law is the accepted norm for all vehicles.  They treat stop signs as yield signs.  The problem with stop lights is more complex but the author covered a lot of the problems quite well in her article.

Marc

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Permalink Reply by Haddon on January 9, 2015 at 8:55am

I'm going to be honest and say I disobey far more traffic laws on a bike than I ever did in a car. 

In a car I'll wait out forever lights that I will not on a bike.  For one there are traffic cameras and I don't even think they register cycles let alone know where to send the ticket. The view is so unobstructed its crazy to wait.

I didn't much ride on the sidewalk in the car but this does happen on the bike.  Also going down one-way streets the wrong way happens (we all do this one) as does rolling on the wrong side of the road.  I'll do uturns all over the place, double yellow lines are suggestions, and when traffic is backed up at an intersection I'll roll right up to the front rather than wait in line behind cars.

I would bet anyone they break all sorts of traffic laws all the time.  Part of this is the convenience of riding a bike and part of this drivers knowing that most of these actions don't impact their driving all that much and the'll let it go.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Kastigar on January 9, 2015 at 3:53pm

Take the survey that's looking into this:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1885930/bikingbad

I don't she any sharing of the results, but the questions they are are interesting. 

Conducted by the University of Colorado, in Denver.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Reho on January 10, 2015 at 7:12am

I took it.  Should result in some good insights.  Made me think about my own biking concepts.

Take the survey that's loking into this:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1885930/bikingbad

I don't she any sharing of the results, but the questions they are are interesting. 

Conducted by the University of Colorado, in Denver.

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