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When I was a younger cyclist, I felt this way about stop signs. The fine for ignoring one was fixed, rare, and occurred at random, so getting my marginal cost p
by motohagiography 3y ago
When I was a younger cyclist, I felt this way about stop signs. The fine for ignoring one was fixed, rare, and occurred at random, so getting my marginal cost per run sign as close to zero as I could was the rational choice. Penalties that affect your license change those incentives, but arbitrary enforcement rewards noncompliance.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoStop signs should really be yield signs for bikes, the cost to actually stop on a bike at every stop sign is ridiculous, and furthermore ruins the enjoyment of a casual ride around the neighborhood. But don't let my kids hear me talking like this...
- sagarm 3y agoI would phrase this differently: cyclists and pedestrians don't need stop signs. Drivers do. We already give pedestrians right of way at four-way stops. It's pretty reasonable to extend that to cyclists.