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Why would you care if cars see you as traffic, if you have to follow the same rules pedestrians do? If they're on the sidewalk, bicycles cross the street at the
by ahomescu1 12y ago
Why would you care if cars see you as traffic, if you have to follow the same rules pedestrians do? If they're on the sidewalk, bicycles cross the street at the pedestrian green and have to stop at pedestrian red. The only safety problem might be accidents between bicycles and people.
- soneil 12y agoSlight confusion here - A bicycle lane that's sharing the same surface as the sidewalk isn't a sidewalk, it's a bicycle lane. How you cross the road follows the rules of the road - ours have stop/yield markings at signalled junctions, and the lane carries on across the road on an unsignalled junction. In the later case, I have right of way crossing the road you're waiting to turn into - because I'm not leaving my lane, and you are. A bicycle in a bike lane is not a pedestrian. It's not on a footpath. It's a vehicle on a surface designated for vehicles. We're still traffic.