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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason cyclists can go faster than drivers is because drivers are stopping at stop signs and cyclists are not. How is that a good thing? It’s against the law (look at the specifics of how Idaho stops are supposed to work) and it’s really dangerous. I drive and can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to slam on the breaks to avoid some idiot on a bike flying through an intersection where they absolutely did not have the right of way. [/quote]

Cyclists don’t want to obey stop signs because it’s too physically taxing to constantly stop and start like a car and it will slow them way down.

But if they’re going to be killed in a place like Washington DC, it’s probably going to be at an intersection by a driver who never saw them coming.[/quote]

Nobody [i]wants to[/i] obey stop signs.

However, people on bicycles obey stop signs at least as much as people who are driving.

And of the bicyclists killed in DC in the last few years, as far as I know, precisely 0 were killed while failing to stop at a stop sign by a driver who was somehow unable to see them. The bicyclist most recently killed in DC was killed by an oncoming speeding hit-and-run driver who crossed the center line mid-block.[/quote]

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