Why cyclists should be allowed to run reds

[Patchelicious]

SA mentality, rules only apply to others and to us when convenient.

[Slowbee]

I cant understand the difficulty obeying a Robot or stop. You will moer your child senseless if he/she does it (I will) cause its dangerous yet you want to do it.

There is a certain amount of common (yet rare) sense that should be applied.

 

At 04H00 in the morning at a stop sign at the end of my road, I am not going to stop. No one in my neighbourhood, let alone the street has even bothered to wake up at this time. Further towards the main road, turning left, if I cannot see any car lights in all directions - why stop, slow down check all is safe then carry on (Opposite the somerset west post office, locals will know what I mean). At the same intersection between 07H00 and 19H00 stop and unclip, everytime all the time. But like I said, common is rare.

[Boerklong]

There is a certain amount of common (yet rare) sense that should be applied.

 

At 04H00 in the morning at a stop sign at the end of my road, I am not going to stop. No one in my neighbourhood, let alone the street has even bothered to wake up at this time. Further towards the main road, turning left, if I cannot see any car lights in all directions - why stop, slow down check all is safe then carry on (Opposite the somerset west post office, locals will know what I mean). At the same intersection between 07H00 and 19H00 stop and unclip, everytime all the time. But like I said, common is rare.

point taken. I understand 100%. Thats a total different scenario.

[paul_ct]

The article makes good sense. Some traffic lights in my area aren't activated by a bicycle so treating them as a stop street when there's no other traffic is the way to go, I'd say.

 

Having said that, many cyclists hardly slow down at red lights, let alone stop, especially when they're approaching lights which they've seen changing but they feel they can get through before the cars are able to get properly off the mark. It's the effort of getting up to speed again which the article writes about. Time to read rule #5.

 

(The thread title seems to imply only slowing for red lights, though. Probably not intentional, or just my interpretation of it.)

[kinggrant]

If there's traffic stop, simple cars already don't like cyclists don't piss them off further....unless it's a strava segment ????