[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by WhiteTom

If you are riding your bike through a crosswalk you are immediately a motor vehicle and no longer a pedestrian.

Excerpt from the Cycling Safety Handbook which directly references the Alberta Traffic Safety Act:

http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/BU/...y_handbook.pdf

Which, if true, creates a lot of grey areas in the rules - such as, who gets they right of way in certain areas, etc. Drivers would have to watch more places for bikers that may have the right of way.

Basically, it doesn't make much sense, and thus as practical rules, pretty much unuseable.

Plus, another reason why it doesn't make sense is that If I become a vehicle as soon as I ride across a crosswalk, then nothing has changed, as (if there is a walk signal) I have the right of way to continue straight through the intersection without stopping. The traffic turning left (crossing the crosswalk) also has right of way, (but would then technically not have the right of way, becasue the roadway would then not be clear).