Comments on: Stop http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/stop/ The Bicycles Stack Exchange Blog Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: freiheit http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/stop/#comment-20 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:33:02 +0000 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/?p=84#comment-20 My understanding is that in the US there’s been federal grant money available for local police departments to spend on overtime to have officers concentrate on bicycle safety.

In my locality they usually concentrate on wrong-way cyclists and non-stoppers (including fairly safe stop-slowers), though the one I had an interaction with in spring chased off after a fixie saying something like “hey, that guy has no brakes!”.

]]> By: DMA57361 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/stop/#comment-16 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:42:28 +0000 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/?p=84#comment-16 I spent a year (well ~9 months or so) cycling a journey of about 20mins to University a few years back, and was alarmed at the high number of other cyclists (mostly other students) jumping red traffic lights (such as when the pedestrian crossings were sounding), using pavements, going the wrong way down the one-way street and swerving under the barriers at the rail crossing as they dropped – all these were a pretty regular occurrence on my journey.

It seems some cyclists just don’t seem to grasp of they fact they’re controlling a road vehicle and the responsibility and legal requirements that entails…

]]> By: neilfein http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/stop/#comment-10 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:21:21 +0000 http://bicycles.blogoverflow.com/?p=84#comment-10 Nice. I wish the police in my town would ticket cyclists.

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