Police in Brookline ponder letting bicyclists treat stop signs like yield signs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruge...

If youre making a right turn, you need to be as far right as possible. if a bike can pass you, you failed as a driver and youre at fault

Exception: Trucks that need to make wide turns.

I might see the public health perspective.

In other words, the big killer is still motorists not following the rules, so let's get that sorted first.

Otherwise, no. Read the law, please. oh, and explain the part about "passing on the left"' to that piece of police work in Somerville who thought that "cyclists are permitted to pass on the right" means that they have to wait until an illegally parked motorist in the bike lane returns and moves instead of going around their car in a legal passing maneuver.

The next time you drive to work (or anywhere), do this: keep count of every motor vehicle that you see breaking a traffic regulation. Including but not necessarily limited to:

• Speeding
• Failure to yield right of way
• Failure to come to a complete stop
• Crossing over the center line
• Crossing over the fog line
• Failure to stop at the stop line
• Failure to signal when changing lanes
• Failure to signal when turning
• Following too closely

Oh, and while you're at it, note how many tickets you see being handed out for these violations. If you see anyone being ticketed, make a reasonable estimate of the total number of vehicles in violation that you saw during your drive, then calculate what percentage are ticketed. Then report back.

Including the bizarre and completely bogus and ignorant ones, of course.

Also, we have right of way laws about how and when vehicles enter an intersection, so your fantasy rant would have to include changing those laws for a solid "lets blame cyclists when drivers are reckless and feel like murder" Disneyland.

If a cyclist entered a clear intersection after an "Idaho Stop" and some murderous motorist wanted a freebee, you'd have to change the laws that give precedence to vehicles already in an intersection before handing out your free license to kill.

"b) if a condition of the law was that any cyclist who collides with a vehicle, cyclist, or other after executing an Idaho Stop is presumed to be 100% at fault for the crash"

That's a stupid presumption. Just think about it for a minute.

by safety or engineering reasons and require that cyclists ride ONLY in the bike lanes (excepting emergency situations like illegally parked cars, debris, and the like).

It means... well let's give a scenario: Let's say I am at an intersection and trying to cross the street. There are norms to street crossing that cars and pedestrians adhere to even though laws doesn't state it specifically (or even technically illegal - the old unenforced jaywalking law).

So this means if I would have cross the street if I was just on foot, then I will cross that same street and scenario if I was on a bike.

the law has to be applicable on a statewide basis, and not just town by town.

Brookline has approved plans to add a contraflow lane to St Mary's, but they're waiting for MassDOT to finish some work on the overpass before painting the contraflow lane. No idea what the timeline is.

I'm not sure about the other specific locations, but I know that Brookline's done an excellent job lately rolling out strategically placed contraflow lanes.

Hahahaha.

I get the sense some relatives of yours probably helped Meriwether Lewis figure out that neighborhood.

I wonder if they can pronounce Coeur D'Alene and Pend Oreille and or tell us anything useful whatever about these places based on direct personal experience.

I passed through a few times in an Amtrak and a bus but still.

Hang on a sec, Swirly, am I to understand that you are seriously contending that there is anywhere in Idaho, even in the central-most of central Boise or Idaho Falls that has the traffic volume, number of disparate users and late 19th Century way dimensions of Coolidge Corner or Washington Sq.?

You've been basking in the glorious sunshine since you posted a link to James's Sometimes a few weeks ago (I think that was you!), but things might have just clouded up!