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As a general concept, I agree, more police would benefit from the perspective of riding a bike. But the problem I'm describing is not that cops don't care to t
by paulgb 7y ago
As a general concept, I agree, more police would benefit from the perspective of riding a bike.
But the problem I'm describing is not that cops don't care to ticket, it's that enforcing the rule incentivizes the wrong behavior. Traffic is so choked and sporadic that it's hard to know whether you will end up in an intersection, so people would be afraid to enter the intersection entirely, further slowing down traffic.
If you actually enforced the law and ticketed it would just effectively be a stochastic congestion tax. Far better and fairer, in my opinion, to just do the real thing.