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I would say I mostly agree with the authors of the video.

One thing I do is tha I pass with red in some particular cases because it improves my safety. Specifically if I know the crossing and if there is a turn right lane that has green before the straight one. I will go straight to half of the crossing to not stay in the lane waiting with fast cars passing me on the right.

  • Maya@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This video pretty much sums up exactly how I behave when getting around on my bike. Since traffic laws where I live basically say that legally, bikes are cars, I doesn’t really make sense to follow the law when doing so puts me in more danger, for example how treating a stop sign as a yield is safer and how I might use a sidewalk if the road has no bike lane and has a speed of 60 km/h or more.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      cyclists are injured and killed more frequently per km traveled on the sidewalk than on the street. it can be safer on a situational basis but riding on the sidewalk by default is going to get you hurt eventually.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    19 days ago

    Yep, I’m in the U.S.A. and this is what I learned from my biker family when I was a kid in the seventies. I’m glad to see that the rules are still pretty much the same.

    Now, if we could just get more people to actually understand them, that would be progress. I don’t know how it is in the rest of the world, but they don’t teach biking etiquette in school here in the USA. At least, they didn’t when I went through the system. And I’ve seen no indication they’ve changed since.