On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:25:26PM -0400, John Francis wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:21:36PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: >> > >> > I was driving in San Francisco over Memorial day weekend and one >> > morning saw a bicyclist, riding along the same route as me, slowing >> > down, but not stopping for stop signs, crossing streets against the >> > red, basically riding safely but illegally. >> >> There was talk a year or so ago of changing the California Vehicle >> Code to make this legal (i.e. bikes could treat "Stop" signs as >> "Yield" signs), but I don't think anything actually came of it. > > I believe that I recently read that that is the law in Idaho. >
It is the law in Idaho, but there is some pressure to implement it elsewhere. I suspect it won't happen until there's significant uptake of legal riding by cyclists. My experience (as a bike commuter) is that I'm usually the only one I see obeying stop-signs or lights when it's even vaguely safe to blow them. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
