• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I understand the need to obey traffic laws on a bicycle, but treating them the same as a 2+ ton projectile that can turn humans into meat paste or cause tens of thousands of dollars in damage to a structure in seconds by effortlessly adjusting your right ankle by 25° is absurd.

    Fines should be proportional to the potential damage of the Infraction.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not about if the cyclist hit something, it’s about the possibility of something hitting the bicyclist.

      If a car, following the law, took its right of way through the intersection and hit a cyclist who wasn’t following the law… Well it’s fine to say the cyclist was at fault, but he’s still been hit by a car.

      Traffic laws are there to protect everyone from each other.

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        1 year ago

        Except, as others have pointed out in this discussion, it’s actually safer to let cyclists use stop signs as yield signs.