CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca to Bicycles@lemmy.ca · 1 year agoBarrie Ontario: 'Yes, you can get a ticket,' Cyclists slapped with hefty fine for blowing through stop signbarrie.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBarrie Ontario: 'Yes, you can get a ticket,' Cyclists slapped with hefty fine for blowing through stop signbarrie.ctvnews.caCoffeeBot@lemmy.ca to Bicycles@lemmy.ca · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareHewlettHackard@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSome jurisdictions actively take the opposite approach - bikes can treat stop signs as yield signs!
minus-squareAdderbox76@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·1 year agoAnd those jurisdictions are what is colloquially known as “stupid”.
minus-squarenicktron@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoHave you decided to change your opinion yet, since you’ve had plenty of time to read about and fix your own “stupid” though?
minus-squarePolendri@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s hard not to see this as ignorance given how easy it is to look up the great safety record of these laws (i.e. right there on the Wikipedia page).
Some jurisdictions actively take the opposite approach - bikes can treat stop signs as yield signs!
And those jurisdictions are what is colloquially known as “stupid”.
Have you decided to change your opinion yet, since you’ve had plenty of time to read about and fix your own “stupid” though?
It’s hard not to see this as ignorance given how easy it is to look up the great safety record of these laws (i.e. right there on the Wikipedia page).