My quick read on the Access article is that the writers would favor
change to yield rather than stop, using their rider hardship evidence
as support.
Seems should be addressed on national level, though? Haven't looked
yet to see if anyone working on.
From an article in the current issue of "Access," by Univ. of
California/Berkeley physics professor Joel Fajans and Access managing
editor Melanie Currie. Both commute by bicycle. "...On a street with a
stop sign every 300 feet, calculations predict that the average
speed of a
150-pound rider putting out 100 watts of power will diminish by about
forty
percent. If the bicyclist wants to maintain her average speed of 12.5
mph
while still coming to a complete stop at each sign, she has to
increase her
output power to almost 500 watts. This is well
beyond the ability of all but the most fit cyclists..." "Access" is a
journal of the University of California Transportation Center at U.C.
Berkeley. More info at: http://www.uctc.net/access/access18lighter.pdf
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