Comment 5550

By highwater (registered) | Posted February 20, 2007 at 12:58:37

I hate to break it to you Brandon, but there's no excuse for a cyclist blowing off a stop sign either. It's illegal plain and simple. The cops occasionally do blitzes on cyclists around my neighbourhood and the penalty for running a stop sign is a $120 fine and 3 demerit points off your driver's license. If you're ever caught, I don't think the argument that it "felt safe" will get you very far.

Ryan, I'm sorry you had to deal with that idiot driver who was ignorant of the fact that cyclist belong on the road. Unfortunately many of our fellow cyclists are equally ignorant. I am a pedestrian and a cyclist and a motorist. Like you, my encounters with ignorant and oblivious drivers as a cyclist have been few and far between, however as a pedestrian, I can't tell you the number of times my kids and I have nearly been hit by cyclists whizzing along the sidewalks in busy commercial areas and in front of my kids' school. Naturally when I point out to them that what they are doing is illegal and could get them ticketed, I am met with a stream of invective. The last time, I was so frustrated I said "I'm a cyclist too. People like you give us a bad name." I won't try that line of argument again. I almost got assaulted.

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