What is the Bicycle Safety Stop (Idaho stop)?
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- People who ride bikes in California should be able to treat stop signs as yields.
It’s safe. It’s smart. It’s common sense.
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Unlike cars, bicycles are quiet without blind spots, so it is easier to see and hear when a motor vehicle is approaching. This also removes the ambiguity of who goes next at a four way stop. If you approach first you make eye contact with the motorist and keep going. If a motorist arrives first, you yield to them without stopping so you keep your momentum getting you through the "kill zone" faster. Momentum also helps when motorists wave you through regardless of who arrives first. The las thing anyone wants is for a bicyclist to be fumbling around in the middle of an intersection trying to get going again. Bicyclists know how to be safe, so let them be in control of their choices for what is best on a moment by moment basis.
I just realised, by watching this video, in The Netherlands we are indeed 50 years ahead with safe street design. This yield concept is so common in The Netherlands. Cyclists and pedestrians most of the time get priority in downtown areas and in the suburbs bicycle infrastructure is even better.
Another big benefit is that in the Southern and Central regions of the state where bicyclists and pedestrians are disproportionately lower-income, police tend to aggressively target them for pretext stops citing minor infractions like this. And often with a pretty poor understanding of the law, like claiming the CVC forbids riding on the sidewalk, ticketing pedestrians for “jaywalking” in unmarked crosswalks, etc.
Ideally there would be no laws pertaining to bicyclists and pedestrians. A properly designed street is one that doesn’t need them
I lived in California. The CVC leaves it up to individual cities to ban/ allow sidewalk riding.
This is great! Thank you for explaining it so well.
Thanks for sharing.
Except nobody uses 100-watt incandescents; we long ago moved on to 23W CFLs, now 9W LEDs
How does this matter in any way
@@Keithfert490 it doesn’t. Doug is just a cop targeting minorities and meeting end of month quotas
{sigh} Someone should have shown this to Governor Newsom. Maybe the next governor will be more reasonable.
If a bicyclist has to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, then they do not, at any time, have the right of way. Why is the bicyclist 'right of way' mentioned several times in this video?
We don't HAVE to treat stop signs as yield signs, we CAN treat them as yield signs if it's safe to do so. Do you see the difference?
Practically no car drivers come to a complete stop at stop signs. Why the double standard?
Sounds good. But, it leaves too much to interpretation as regards compliance.
Cars and bikes just don't mix. It has been proven. Ask the emergency wards in the hospitals. And it is never going to change.Bikers need to be licensed so they don't get away with hit and runs. Use the money to build safer lanes for bikers. Right now, it is a suicide ride to ride in traffic There is no second chance if they get hit by a big truck They will be in pain for the rest of their lives or dead. How stupid to run that risk. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE GOOD HEALTH AND NOT HAVING A PAIN IN MY ENTIRE BODY.