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Originally Posted by soopaman2
I do not wish to start a crapstorm, but being a city driver, I kinda hate bicyclists.
They hold laws that protect them more than car drivers, yet do not eat the same dooky-pie, that a driver does for running red lights and stop signs.
They run a stop sign, car plows into them, and local press kills the driver as some maniac. When they were simply obeying laws of the road.
Spend A week in NYC, and see the crap the couriers pull in traffic, and get a free pass on, before you critisize me.
Then again with all of Bloomburgs crap, this will be judged ok, just like his 3rd term that he critisized Rudy Guiliani over, when he was city council...Oh no I insulted a loved politician.! (who owns his own news outlet)
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You would have to ask an LE officer but I am fairly sure that stops signs do apply to those riding bikes so from a legal stand pint if a cyclist rode though a stop sign or traffic light and he got hit it is their fault.
According to this PDF for Florida cops they can enforce the same laws on cyclists so they do have to stop at any stop sign or light at least in FL.Yubba should read the second bullet point in this PDF closely you actually violated a law by the way so you would have gotten nothing sorry and why in the world would you expect anyone to see you if you assume that they are distracted they certainly are not going to be looking for you.Like it says many drivers do not expect to see anything going against traffic flow and you are only on a small bike so all things considered you greatly increase the odds of being hit.
http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/pedsafety/bicycle_guide.pdf