To stop or not to stop, that is the question
In the movie Under the Tuscan Sun, the American writer Frances asks the handsome Italian Marcello about Italians and stop lights.
“Green is avanti” he says.
“Yellow, avanti, avanti”
“And red? she asks.
“Just a suggestion.”
It seems that red lights are just a suggestion here for Twin Cities bikers too, and as for the lowley stop sign, well, “What stop sign?” I nearly creamed a guy who blew through a stop sign on while I was driving down 31st Street in Uptown this afternoon.
This was no kid. This was a bicyclist, a string-bean thin man on a twig-thin bike with emaciated tires and the day-glo jersey to prove it.
This was no kid. This was a bicyclist, a string-bean thin man on a twig-thin bike with emaciated tires and the day-glo jersey to prove it.
So fellow cyclists, what is bike etiquette when it comes to the red, yellow and green? When do you stop, when do you slow down and when, as Marcello suggests, do you avanti, avanti?
I slow down at yellow lights.
ReplyDeleteI stop at red ones.
I stop and take my turn with other vehicles at stop lights.
Like the vehicle-rider I am.
This is not rocket science, folks.
As a cyclist I take advantage of anything I can get. As a driver I hate it when people do that. Go figure
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