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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. This post has gone off the rails but I'm still very confused by the argument in favor of the Idaho stop. Seems PPs have been saying:

1. No one follows stop signs any way, bikers shouldn't have to
2. It requires more physical exertion to stop
3. Cars are dangerous so let me get to my destination more quickly

Please help me understand. I do not see how this is SAFER for the cyclist. Regardless of the relative statistics on crime, car accidents, etc. How does this make it SAFER for CYCLISTS?[/quote]

Try biking when there's one lane in each direction, and come to a complete stop.  You need to be in the middle of the lane because there isn't enough room in a normal lane for drivers to pass you (let me know if you need a source for that).  What happens is that impatient drivers start crossing the double yellow line to pass in very aggressive and unsafe ways.  Or even worse, passing in the parking lane.  Being able to treat a stop sign as a yield let's me keep more momentum, travel more closely to car speeds between stop signs.[/quote]

DP here is the problem I have seen in the past few days. Both of these are cyclists “not trying to not losing momentum”. First at T intersection with one stop sign.  I come up to the stop sign, stop look left, right, then left again. I start to move through the stop sign and a cyclist comes from behind on my right and cut left in front of my car. Lucky I saw her. Another time on 4 lane(Nebraska Avenue by AU) at a stop light. Cyclists rides between stops cars stopped waiting for light to change and cuts in front of the car in the right lane right as the light changes. No one is looking for that.

Also cyclists have started riding in the street when there is a dedicated by bike lane go the same way. 
Here is [/quote]

This will kill people.  Bikers are already reckless in dc. 
And even though it will be the biker’s fault, drivers will have to live with the psychological burden of having hit someone. 
It’s just wrong. [/quote]

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