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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
I'm not going to argue about the letter of the law, but find me one person who actually cares if I ride my bike across a crosswalk instead of walking it - after cars have all stopped anyway.
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/raises his hand
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
If I was just jumping out into moving traffic, sure, I would be doing something unsafe. But who's going to complain when I save them 10-15 seconds by riding across instead of walking?
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I think I've been nearly clipped more times by cyclists downtown than I have been by motorists. Just sayin'.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Plus, we are talking about totally different magnitudes of danger here. Me riding my bike across the street after cars have stopped is no less safe then walking across. Drivers pulling into the crosswalk is exponentially more dangerous - literally putting lives on the line if they happened to do it at just the wrong time. I've seen it countless times where had I been ten or twenty feet further ahead of where I was, I would have been hit.
Riding across a crosswalk could be dangerous, if you aren't being observant and waiting for cars to stop. Cars pulling into crosswalks is ALWAYS dangerous.
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I would guess most people who stop in crosswalks do it while the light is yellow or just turned red. That is to say, there would be no pedestrians in the crosswalk. Walking around those vehicles to cross the street might put you closer to traffic coming from the other lane but to say it's always dangerous is not correct. Inconvenient. Possibly dangerous. But it's probably not as bad as you and others would suggest.