Should cyclists run red lights?
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FuzzBeast at 10.25.07 - 12:46 pm
Reposted from lafixed
http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/10/22/should-cyclists-run-red-lights/
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i like what that one reply said.. about Idaho.
They've mended the law so that stop signs are treated as yield and lights are treated as stop signs for bikers.
richtotheie10.25.07 - 1:02 pm
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Of course we should stop.
Unless of course we are riding in large groups.
Then it would be safer to run through.
Ratt_Bones10.25.07 - 1:10 pm
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Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means go very fast ...
Joe Borfo10.25.07 - 1:47 pm
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i agree w rattbones except in situations when you're alone at a stop light and there are no cars or hazards around at all.
i have no problems running those, as long as i know i'm not gonna get hit by something, or piss someone else off.
trekkie10.25.07 - 1:48 pm
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Some of you dedicated red light runners would get there just as quick, or quicker, if you waited at the lights but rode faster than fuckin' 2 MPH. Just saying.
PC10.25.07 - 1:51 pm
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and EVEN faster if you rode fast as hell, and carefully/safely ran reds.
FuzzBeast10.25.07 - 2:36 pm
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Do what you want.
sexy10.25.07 - 2:51 pm
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the replies to that on
digg are neat.
but yeah... take each light as what they are.
i still wonder, the guys who always complain about cyclist running lights, do they prefer we stand in front of them, slowly get up to pedal instead?
neverclever10.25.07 - 3:11 pm
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I'm still wondering about the ones bitching about bikes lane splitting at stop lights. What are we supposed to sit BEHIND all these cars, inhaling more of their exhaust?
FuzzBeast10.25.07 - 3:20 pm
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Drivers that bitch about lane splitting are just mad cause a guy on a bike is passing their sorry ass with a smile on their face.
They're just haters.
kyber10.25.07 - 4:34 pm
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"They've mended the law so that stop signs are treated as yield and lights are treated as stop signs for bikers."
That's how
I ride. Hell, that's how I drive, too.
lackflag10.25.07 - 5:08 pm
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I've learned how to please CH.
Just keep everything under five syllable. He is a real simple creature.
sexy10.25.07 - 5:49 pm
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god, reading comments on digg really piss me off. i love how these retards just automatically assume that the topic at hand is whether or not bikes should run red lights
in direct obstruction of oncoming cross-traffic.
nobody is suggesting that a cyclist should race through and intersection knowing a car is coming, yet these morons keep saying things like "if it's car vs. bike, car wins." jesus fucking christ.
trekkie10.25.07 - 5:59 pm
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Kent is a better writer, a better cyclist, and all around a better person than I am, so I'm with Kent on this one.
http://kentsbike.blogspot.com/2007/03/riding-with-mark-vande-kamp.html
laoxue10.25.07 - 6:15 pm
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For freewheelers only: I find pedaling backwards when slowing on approach may better inform those who see it. It may also make the instant I act to accelerate more quickly detected and understood for what it is. Works for me anyway.
OverTheHill10.25.07 - 8:55 pm
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Only time I blow the red is when there's no one else around, or drivers are too preoccupied to care.
Other times, if the traffic is clear in the crossing directions, I just spin the metal and disappear.
I mean, you've already broken the law, why make it worse by sticking around and gloating??
bentstrider10.25.07 - 9:03 pm
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