Intersection sensor activator puts an end to cyclist discrimination
By Samuel Axon 
posted November 7th 2008 3:42PM
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Now can we make something that will make cyclists obey stop signs?
heard you the third time. now, you gonna be even handed with all the motorists doing 45 in 25 zones everywhere?
A 2008 South Carolina law allows for bicyclists (and also motorcyclists) to go through a red light, as long as they have waited two minutes.
on the other hand, it's not like you'll get a ticket if you just run the damn light or ride all over the sidewalk.
I know plenty of bicyclists in Cambridge/Boston (MA) who have gotten tickets from pulling illegal bicycling maneuvers. And in MA, a ticket received while riding a bicycle in considered a moving violation, so if you happen to have automobile insurance, your premium will go up. Go figure, having a driver's license in MA is actually a liability if you ride a bicycle!
I have seen to many idiots on on bikes and behind the wheel. I try to respect the bike folk but some you just can't help but want to hit. Talking about you critical mass clowns. I don't have time to drive behind 200 hipster fools that want to show how different they are from the rest of us. This causes gridlock and wastes gas. I do have friends and family that are bike people so I do know how the pro-bike crowd feels and I respect their views. So bike people, try to respect the views of everyone else on the F ing road.
SF Native to City Bicyclists:
Go back to your fly-over towns. It's funny how few of you people are actually from the city.
lol dumbass go back to you prop 13 rathole in the marina
While I am at it, if you ride a bike or drive a car I think we all can agree that the most annoying part of being on the road are kids playing in the middle of the facking road. I can't tell you how many times I have been going 20 in a 25 zone and have had some parent yelling SLOW DOWN! Sometimes even the kids do it. These are the people that need to be punched in the throat...hard. If you are that worried about your kid getting hit GET THEM OFF THE ROAD. I know I must be old because my parents would have kicked my ass for playing in the middle of the road and if I yelled at a car to slow down they still would be hitting me. Kids need to learn that anything on wheels is going to mess them up. To those that say bikes arent as bad as cars in this regard, I was hit by two ten speeds crossing the street when I was five and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. When I got home my folks still yelled at me for trying to cross the street when there was traffic. Sorry, just had to get that of my chest. Old man story time is over.
The comment that get my goat is where the writer says, "In a sinister and systematic oppression of cyclists (we're absolutely certain it's intentional), many traffic lights....". "Intentional" ?!!! OMG... give me a freakin break. Yes, when the government started to install the sensors in the streets... the first thing that came to mind was, "man, we sure are going to get them cyclist". Are you serious ?
Now, I respect those who want to cycle to work or whatever... and great they have an invention to make it easier for them (though, I have a scooter that I use and I'm always stuck at lights until they change or I lose the patience to wait any longer - and then I just go anyways). But Samual, don't think the world is against cyclists because most people prefer cars. That's silly. It's bad enough you refer the "disastrously negative impact on the environment" when only humans really give off around 10-15% of the toxins that are in the atmoshpere and your seem to be a part of that hype BS, banwagon....but you don't need to cry & whine about how the government is out to make cyclists lives difficult.
Com'on man. Let's return to earth.
Tinman
Sarcasm detection fail.
Finally I can take my bicycle through the fast-food drive thru!
Bike people, it is now time to face some facts. The road system in this country was not made for bikes, it was made for motorized transportation. Countless dollars were not spent so you can pedal 15 mph below the posted speed limit. If the light does not change for you take the hint. Maybe you shouldn't be riding there. I do understand that a bike is the best means of transportation for some and I agree that drivers should be careful, but you need to understand that there is already enough idiots out on the road already. The last thing 99% of us want to see is someone on a busy road on a bike. I know that I try to keep a safe distance from you when behind the wheel and I would never want to see someone on a bike get hit. So please do everyone else a favor and try to stay out of our way. If you know you are going slow and there are cars behind you PULL OVER. You are not a car. If you get hit by some fool you will get the worst of it.
hey pal, you know what? suck it.
Mate, I think you need to pull your head out of your arse - the roads in most of the US are wide enough to drive Hummers sideways down. I've lived there, as well as Europe where cyclists and drivers co-exist rather happily on roads considerably narrower than yours.
The fact that a bicycle which uses approximately 1 meter of road real-estate causes someone to be stuck behind them then in the US should lead them to 1) complain that the road is too narrow, 2) get a car that isn't as wide or 3) realise that their driving skills suck.
Twichy... I live in Europe & having cyclists on main roads is annoying over here too. Let's not pretend we know more than we do. And mate, I'll let ya know when I need your opinion on my sarcasm or not... as you were being just as sarcastic as I was. Don't be a shithead.
Actually, a lot of the roads in the US were first paved by or under pressure from bike lobbyist groups, especially the League of American Wheelmen. A lot of people don't realize that bikes actually drove a lot of the infrastructural development that made cars possible...
I'm glad you think that America's system of roads and highways can be attributed mostly to bicycles.
I'm sure that's the reason that people started wanting to pave roads
I'll give you "a few", not "a lot", and even that's stretching it
You know, because its not like we ever used horses as transportation, and that the lack of paved roads caused them injury
ahhhhh, How great it would be to think the world revolved around me as much as cyclists do.
you still here trolling Tyler? don't you have some people or animals to go intimidate?
Tyler,
Learn your history. Horses actually did just fine on unpaved roads because they could step around potholes and other road damage. Although cobblestones and other surface treatments were popular in cities where the sheer volume of traffic could destroy the road surface, continuously asphalt or gravel-paved roads were first systematically pursued by cyclist groups. Of course, during the thirties the efforts to pave roads shifted to automobile use as the car became ubiquitous (there were five US residents per privately owned auto by 1930). I'm not saying that all of today's roads are designed for cyclists; any idiot can see that that's not true by looking at the boneheaded design when it comes to bike accommodations on most roads. I'm saying that the first groups to actively pursue a network of continuously paved roads (I.e. paved along the entire length, from city-to-city) were cyclist groups.
Remember, the bike was the first mode of personal transportation after the unhitched horse to be able to maintain 15 miles per hour easily. Although that speed seems a little pokie now, it was sufficiently faster than wagons and pedestrians to generate a vision for a paved highspeed network of highways.
Perfect, now I can carry one of these around when I walk through the drivethrough.
As if bicyclists ever even slow down. let alone actually STOP, at red lights, stop signs, or for hapless pedestrians in crosswalks. PLEASE!
@phanbouy Hey pal, real classy. I guess that's why people love bike riders so much. It's cool though. Ride safe.
showed your true colors after all -- just another clueless hater trying to spread FUD to get an "inconvenience" out of the way.
stay off the road, tard.
As soon as cyclists start obeying traffic laws and stop living in the law realm of something between a pedestrian and a driver whenever it suits them then we'll talk about devices that let them play. I've ridden, rode buses and drive to work and now with this influx of newbie traffic riders out there they seem to be totally oblivious to the traffic laws that pertain to all rolling vehicles. Licenses for everyone. Imagine what 10.00 - 20.00 bucks per rider could do toward improving the infrastructure we all want to roll around on.
Never knew that bikers were being segregated despite their contributions to the environment. This will surely help them in their travals.
Thank God I wasn't the only one that thinks that many bikers feel they are entitled to be above the law
Don't get me started on that bullshit spandex that you guys ride around in.
It's obviously not just a method of transportation when you're wearing that stupid tour de france gear. Are you shaving important milliseconds off your ride to work? You wear it because you want to be part of the cult. It's a mindset, and I guess pretentiousness of the law and everything else comes with that mindset.
I don't put on my nascar helmet and racing jacket when i get in my car.
Agree To Disagree I guess
Take a look at your post and tell me how you're not the world's biggest flaming asshole.
p.s. just admit you're a fat, lazy slob who blames his misery on the _clothes_ that others wear. next time, try a 60 mile ride in jeans and then tell me if you still care what you look like to others. what a prick wad. hey mom's calling ya.
I knew a guy who got doored and the impact on his head hitting the pavement (with helmet) caused him to lose his completes olfactory sense (couldn't smell [or taste] anything.) He became a complete nut case manic and would cal people up in the middle of the night asking them to come over and smell his milk because he was afraid it'd gone bad, but couldn't tell by the odor, or to smell for gas leaks. He ended losing all of his friends and really hot girlfriend, who I ended up dating.
uhhh, just get what harleys get. greenlight trigger looks 10 times better
http://www.greenlightstuff.com/trigger.html
Come to Holland, no bicycle discrimination
How bout a device that stops bikers from running red lights and stop signs...
There are good arguments for both sides, but the fact remains that until the cities get together and build more bicycle lanes, people willingly forcing automobiles to follow behind them while inconveniencing hundreds of people really need to get over themselves. You can go on all day and say that it's not your fault because you aren't in charge of individually building bike lanes on every street, but consistently compounding the existing problem for your own convenience does in fact have consequences that extend beyond the single person on the bike.
Seriously, the overwhelming arrogance exhibited these days is really sickening. I'm living in a city where bicycles are a *huge* problem on the already tiny roads... they deserve the freedom to ride their bikes, but we deserve freedom to drive a reasonable speed without causing traffic accidents or creating non-automobile-related congestion. There is, however, no reason why any cyclist who knowingly puts him/herself and others at risk should say -anything- even mildly degrading to an automobile driver over the problem because quite honestly, it's only the cyclists causing the problem -- take it up with the city if you wish to continue your argument, cycling and taking up the entire lane without going remotely close to the speed limit is dangerous and selfish. You could also argue that someone who worked and paid for an automobile for transportation shouldn't be highly inconvenienced on a road designed for automobiles by someone who spent 50 dollars on a Huffy and is out just soaking up some sun during rush hour.
can you make something like this for my moped?
oh...right...it will go like 5 MPH after attaching that thing ;(
When i ride to work, there is a stoplight that goes off ONLY when there is a car there so one time i was waiting for like 15 minutes cause the frickin light doesnt have like a override timer...grrrr stupid engineers...