krelvar

That's a lot of words to say, "I don't want someone on a bicycle to get something that makes their life a little easier. In fact, cars should get it and not bikes!"

I would love, love love to see more roundabouts here, there's a lot of inertia against them though.

I was talking from the perspective of the effort involved in a full stop on a bike vs a car. You seem to be taking the position that cyclists doing an Idaho stop will never stop or look around, that it should all be on car drivers to avoid oblivious idiot cyclists who will ride out in front of them without warning. I guarantee you any of those states that have this law will still find the cyclist at fault if they run a red light and get clobbered.

If you want to change the topic and talk about whether I have "sympathy for the environment", I also drive an EV. I replaced my gas furnace with a heat pump. I ride my bike instead of driving a car for most of my <10mile trips. Having the ability to roll a stop sign or proceed through a red light when it's clear has nothing to do with any of those things.

There is a difference between a vehicle you have to power with your own muscles and a vehicle that you power by moving your big toe on the gas pedal. of course they all benefit from momentum, but I'd much rather have to come to a complete stop and then start up again in a car.

Frankly, if there's other traffic, you're a dumbass if you rely on drivers to see and respect your right-of-way as a cyclist. Being in the right and dead is still dead.

I slow roll stop signs. I don't do that at lights, but I will stop and then run the light if there's no one around. I'm not riding on the sidewalk, so I can't reach the button, and frequently the bike doesn't trigger the signal.

ONE MEELION TARIFFS ON YOU!

I swear to dog, we live in the dumbest fucking timeline

Yep, it's the most R of them.

Thanks, much appreciated!

Gotcha. I'm using Mlem and I see a title and body fields, perhaps that's it.

I'm not sharing the link correctly, somehow. There's no preview of the page, just the active link. I assume there's probably markdown or similar I should use, just not sure what it is.

Not sure what I need to do differently in my post to make the link work correctly :(