[NMCycling] ARKANSAS (!) adopt Idaho Stop

John Vance via Bike-racers bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com
Mon Oct 28 14:54:13 MDT 2019


Additionally this is yet another excuse to not fix malfunctioning traffic
light sensors.  Hey, it doesn't detect the presence of a bicyclist?  Just
run the light!  Good luck getting sensors tuned after a law like this is
passed.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:52 PM John Vance <adogapanicinapagoda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah not seeing the benefit to me here.  If it's red, I'm stopped.
> Everyone stopping and waiting on red benefits everyone.  Going when there's
> no traffic is just fine and dandy until that one time you thought there was
> no traffic but were horribly wrong.  Smoosh.  Going on green is pretty safe
> until that other bicyclist Idaho stops on red, looks right through you, and
> rolls right into your path.  And what's my liability if I refuse to go on
> red and some jackass hits me from behind because "I thought he was going to
> Idaho Stop"?
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:23 PM Diane Albert via Bike-racers <
> bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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>> https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/04/03/the-idaho-stop-is-finally-starting-to-happen/
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