Stop sign pet peeve

This morning, riding eastbound on Kinzie.

Approaching an intersection where everyone has a stop sign.

As I approach, an eastbound car is stopped at the stop sign, with its right turn arrow blinking.

I come to a stop.

After I come to a stop, not one, not two, not three, but FOUR cyclists, approaching from behind me, all blow through the stop sign.

WTF!

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Permalink Reply by Mark on June 21, 2017 at 3:14am

I try and time my approaches to these intersections so I am not arriving at the same time as a car and we're both waiting for each other to go first. I also coast up stop signs. I can't stand cyclists that don't alter their speed, whether fast or slow, and continue their same cadence through the intersection.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Z on June 21, 2017 at 4:24am

Agree.

Even more common than what I describe in the OP is east bound cars on Kinzie waiting to turn left, and westbound cyclists just cruise through their stop sign, one after the other, as if there is no sign at all.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Muczynaki on June 23, 2017 at 1:24pm

This kind of behavior makes the rest of us unsafe, for sure.

Any ideas about what we can do to correct it?

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Permalink Reply by Nick Alt on June 23, 2017 at 6:19pm

I have gotten now where I will stop well ahead of the 4 way stop if I see that a car is approaching to let the car clear..usually they notice the yield..