Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights
How about no. Stop signs were designed to prevent people being hit by crossing traffic.<p>This isn&#x27;t just a to protect the cyclists from being hit by cars, but to protect pedestrians from being hit by cyclists.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but my experience of living in London in the past 4 years pretty much made me hate cyclists with passion.<p>I find them considerably more dangerous and pesky than cars, they simply ignore all rules whether it&#x27;s not giving a flying duck about the red signal at a bike lane while pedestrians have the green light to cross the street, utterly ignoring no bikes allowed in the run&#x2F;walk only paths in Hyde Park or by interchanging road, bike lane, sidewalk and even the crosswalk at will with nill consideration to pedestrians and a shitty attitude to boot.<p>I&#x27;m constantly buzzed off green lights (to me) by cyclists that cycle at high speeds because they could not be arsed to honor a red light, I&#x27;ve been hit by bikes more than once in these 4 years, and just over the weekend I&#x27;ve seen a guy on a rental metro bike hit a baby carriage (empty one as far as i could tell) in Hyde Park because they were in a no-bike zone and came out a turn which has no visibility whatsoever.<p>I really don&#x27;t understand the level of self entitlement that cyclists seem to have and why they seem to have such a shitty attitude towards drivers and pedestrians alike.
A bicycle rolling through a stop sign isn&#x27;t any less dangerous than a car rolling through one, if anything a car is easier to spot than a bicycle and cars don&#x27;t tend to have their visibility shuttered by driving between full lanes.<p>The reason why most countries do not allow roll through stop signs or at least heavily restrict them is that rolling through a stop sign sets the wrong behaviour pattern because once you get used to a stop sign you know you can roll over you aren&#x27;t going to slow down to roll over speed you might simply slow down by a bit but not nearly enough to respond appropriately.<p>The same thing is going to happen to cyclists they&#x27;ll get use to it and eventually get careless they won&#x27;t give 2 ducks about the padestrians trying to cross the road with already ludicrously short light times and they&#x27;ll take more and more risks as far as crossing the intersection goes.<p>Cyclists don&#x27;t have mandatory insurance, they can hit anyone and do pretty hefty damage if it&#x27;s at speed and good luck suing them for anything at least with cars in most countries you can always sue the insurance of the offending driver.
Heck at this point I&#x27;m not even entirely sure if being hit by a bicycle in the UK constitutes a &quot;road accident&quot; so they might as well just take off and not give a flying duck about it, it happened to me got hit in the side I assume by the stem&#x2F;handlebars at pretty high speed the cyclist didn&#x27;t seem to give a shit at all and just wobbled a bit and continued on his way without even checking. It was a sharp pain but not bad enough however the night after half my side was purple if it would be a bit stronger or sharper hit I might&#x27;ve ended up pissing blood for 2 weeks.