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That's not the same type of problem though. When vehicles behave this way they maim and kill the pedestrian or cyclist. When a cyclist does it usually results i
by really3452 7y ago
That's not the same type of problem though. When vehicles behave this way they maim and kill the pedestrian or cyclist. When a cyclist does it usually results in hurting themselves and causing property damage to the drivers vehicle.
Example: A couple of years ago my mom was bicycling on the bike path near her home. There was a driver stopped at a stop sign. They were stopped behind the bike path crossing which they are also supposed to yield to but never saw her coming down the bike path. Instead they were searching the on-coming traffic for an opening to cross the intersection. My mom thought she made eye contact before starting to cross but apparently the driver never saw her. Just as she started crossing the driver saw an opening and gunned their vehicle crashing into her bike and throwing her. She ended up needing to get knee surgery due to that.
And that doesn't even start to get into how most stop-lighted intersections are not designed for bicycle use. Many stoplights that I end up at are weight sensitive meaning that there is no way for me to trigger a green light to go straight or make a left hand turn without first crossing the right turn lane, pushing the cross walk button (if it exists at all) and then crossing back to the left hand turn lane.