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Originally Posted by toonmaster
This drives me up the wall, the advantage of riding a bike is you have the ability to switch between a vehicle and a pedestrian, you can travel as a vehicle but at your option can switch to become a pedestrian and take advantage as such things as signalled pedestrian crossings, just follow the damn rules.
This is why I have no sympathy for cyclists who come tearing up a path/sidewalk on their bike and try and run a flashing or solid no walk sign and then get all pissy when I have every right to complete my left turn because they should be dismounting and following the rules of the road.
I have stopped numerous times and told cyclists who flip me the bird to go read the rules before having a hissy fit over something they clearly have no knowledge of.
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And that's why, like I said, I never use that to my advantage. I wait until traffic has stopped, I don't expect drivers to have to stop for me, when they couldn't have seen me coming up behind them in an area they aren't required to look.
I try very hard to not affect drivers in a negative way. Once they have stopped for me, I ride across, as this gets me out of their way quite a bit sooner, and is MUCH less annoying for me.
I won't get pissy when I get in your way (I try not to do that in the first place). I will get pissy when drivers don't obey their rules (the simple ones like stopping before the crosswalk or sidewalk) or don't even look to see if there are pedestrians or cyclists before flying through a crosswalk in a merge lane.
I realize that the rule is that you have to dismount and walk across roadways, but, IMO, that rule seriously needs to be looked at and revised somehow - and still keeping it safe for both drivers and cyclists. Keeping it the way it is only discourages people from riding altogether, and keeps riders in traffic lanes when they could be riding on the bike path instead.