Are bikes allowed to go through red lights on major roads?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

Believe it or not, there's way more than one of us here.

You're not fooling anyone when you say you're a different poster or that you've never heard of DCUM until now and then say the exact same things you say in the previous 500 posts you wrote here.

I am a different poster than the one you were replying to. You think we are all the same person because we say "carbrain"? LOL. Checked out boomer! Do you know where that saying comes from? It's from a subreddit that has almost half a million subscribers. /r/[swearword]cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Today, I was driving westbound on Macarthur Blvd, and I stopped at a red light. Two bicyclists, with children in tow, came up behind me, crossed four lanes of traffic to turn left onto Dana Place. I know bikes can do a rolling stop through stop signs, but is this correct behavior at a stop sign. It seemed very dangerous to me as cars were crossing Macarthur with the light.

Fools also ride bikes. Anyone riding a bike who runs a red light is just asking to be killed by a car and they are acting foolishly.

Okay, let's all just get on same page.

Cyclist here.

What happens in this video

is the cyclist is being foolish and putting themselves at unnecessary risk. I saw a video (couldn't find it) of a cyclist just humming along on one of the T or R type sts in NW who just blows through a light at 16th street without looking and is nailed by a taxi. That taxi did nothing wrong, the cyclist did. WE ALL AGREE.

That isn't the type of "red light running" that cyclists want. This is

. What we want to be able to legally do is stop at a red light, look both ways, see no one coming, and proceed through. It's the same thing that many pedestrians do when they are going to cross a street and no one is coming, but the light is red at the intersection. Why is this? Because the red lights are for swiftly moving vehicles. No one wants to stand in the rain or at night or just period at an intersection where literally no one is coming to wait to cross. It's stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine what it would be like if cycling was actually popular in DC?

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html#:~:text=In%20Paris%2C%20parts%20of%20the,bike%20lanes%20weave%20through%20traffic.

Lawless cyclists are not such a big problem in DC because there aren't that many of them. But hard to imagine what it would be like if lots of people starting biking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine what it would be like if cycling was actually popular in DC?

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html#:~:text=In%20Paris%2C%20parts%20of%20the,bike%20lanes%20weave%20through%20traffic.

Lawless cyclists are not such a big problem in DC because there aren't that many of them. But hard to imagine what it would be like if lots of people starting biking.

Lots of people are biking. What do you do for a hobby when there aren't active threads about bicycling on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

NP here. Q for PP:

Are you always so rude? And why do you hate bicycles so much?

You do realize your SUV leaves a massive carbon footprint, and you are choosing to poison the air your children (and everyone’s children) must breathe, right?

Riding your bike makes zero difference to global warming. Sorry. It's too small to matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

NP here. Q for PP:

Are you always so rude? And why do you hate bicycles so much?

You do realize your SUV leaves a massive carbon footprint, and you are choosing to poison the air your children (and everyone’s children) must breathe, right?

Riding your bike makes zero difference to global warming. Sorry. It's too small to matter.

You are so boring. I'll leave you to talk to yourself on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yes, I wish police would stop drivers who run red lights as well, but I was shocked at these biking parents putting their children at risk like that.

I drive like a grandma and have had to slam on the breaks multiple times to avoid killing people on bikes barreling through intersections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

NP here. Q for PP:

Are you always so rude? And why do you hate bicycles so much?

You do realize your SUV leaves a massive carbon footprint, and you are choosing to poison the air your children (and everyone’s children) must breathe, right?

Riding your bike makes zero difference to global warming. Sorry. It's too small to matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yes, I wish police would stop drivers who run red lights as well, but I was shocked at these biking parents putting their children at risk like that.

I drive like a grandma and have had to slam on the breaks multiple times to avoid killing people on bikes barreling through intersections.

So you also drive like a grandma in that you can’t see so well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yes, I wish police would stop drivers who run red lights as well, but I was shocked at these biking parents putting their children at risk like that.

I drive like a grandma and have had to slam on the breaks multiple times to avoid killing people on bikes barreling through intersections.

So you also drive like a grandma in that you can’t see so well?

Some bikers don't wear spandex

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine what it would be like if cycling was actually popular in DC?

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html#:~:text=In%20Paris%2C%20parts%20of%20the,bike%20lanes%20weave%20through%20traffic.

Lawless cyclists are not such a big problem in DC because there aren't that many of them. But hard to imagine what it would be like if lots of people starting biking.

Bicyclists acting cautiously and in their own interests are not a small “problem” for DC; they are a non-existent problem in comparison to all the illegal ATVs and motocross bikes doing whatever the hell they want in DC while MPD does nothing about the issue.

So everyone just STFU about bicycles. MYOB, cage-drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

Believe it or not, there's way more than one of us here.

You're not fooling anyone when you say you're a different poster or that you've never heard of DCUM until now and then say the exact same things you say in the previous 500 posts you wrote here.

I am a different poster than the one you were replying to. You think we are all the same person because we say "carbrain"? LOL. Checked out boomer! Do you know where that saying comes from? It's from a subreddit that has almost half a million subscribers. /r/[swearword]cars.

Uh, huh, right. Normal people don't feel compelled to respond to every single post. You don't have to shout down anyone who has a different opinion than you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

Believe it or not, there's way more than one of us here.

You're not fooling anyone when you say you're a different poster or that you've never heard of DCUM until now and then say the exact same things you say in the previous 500 posts you wrote here.

I am a different poster than the one you were replying to. You think we are all the same person because we say "carbrain"? LOL. Checked out boomer! Do you know where that saying comes from? It's from a subreddit that has almost half a million subscribers. /r/[swearword]cars.

Uh, huh, right. Normal people don't feel compelled to respond to every single post. You don't have to shout down anyone who has a different opinion than you.

Different poster checking in here just to say hi and we don't all think the same as you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

Believe it or not, there's way more than one of us here.

You're not fooling anyone when you say you're a different poster or that you've never heard of DCUM until now and then say the exact same things you say in the previous 500 posts you wrote here.

I am a different poster than the one you were replying to. You think we are all the same person because we say "carbrain"? LOL. Checked out boomer! Do you know where that saying comes from? It's from a subreddit that has almost half a million subscribers. /r/[swearword]cars.

Uh, huh, right. Normal people don't feel compelled to respond to every single post. You don't have to shout down anyone who has a different opinion than you.

I"m not sure how you get "shouting down" from "gleeful mockery". But okay old man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Riding a bike in a big city is like playing football or boxing. You should not be surprised if it gets you seriously hurt. It’s part of the deal, whether you want to admit it or not.

No. Riding a bike, by itself, is safe. Just like walking is safe, or sitting on park bench, or sitting in outdoor seating at a restaurant, or loading groceries into your car trunk. It's the presence of cars, and people driving cars, that make all of these activities dangerous.

How many of these stupid posts have you written today? Have you done anything else since the moment you woke up?

Believe it or not, there's way more than one of us here.

You're not fooling anyone when you say you're a different poster or that you've never heard of DCUM until now and then say the exact same things you say in the previous 500 posts you wrote here.

I am a different poster than the one you were replying to. You think we are all the same person because we say "carbrain"? LOL. Checked out boomer! Do you know where that saying comes from? It's from a subreddit that has almost half a million subscribers. /r/[swearword]cars.

The irony of someone in a cycling sub on Reddit making fun of someone else is…something. All hail the King of the Dorks! Get your spandex mom jeans ready for the ride!

Anyway, bad cyclists are a self correcting problem. Good cyclists you’ll never even notice.