Anyway a woman on her phone tried to turn left on a red arrow through the busy bike lane yesterday and I shouted at her to get off her fucking phone and then everyone clapped but nothing changed, standard bike ride bullshit. We had 4 Sunday afternoon downtown drivers try to turn through us 🫠
![A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fact sheet published in March 2023 states that stop-as-yield and red-as-stop laws "showed added safety benefits for bicyclists in States where they were evaluated, and may positively affect the environment, traffic, and transportation".[15] Acting Administrator Ann Carlson stated at a conference in October 2022 that "it increases [bicyclist] visibility to drivers and reduces their exposure. It also promotes safety in numbers by encouraging more people to bike, which reduces cyclists' overall risks.”[16][17]
A 2010 study showed a 14.5% decrease in bicyclist injuries after the passage of the original Idaho Stop law, with the author concluding that "the decline in injuries is consistent with the strong indication that the law actually improves overall roadway safety".[18][19] A Delaware state-run study of the "Delaware Yield" law (allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs) concluded that it reduced injuries at stop-sign controlled intersections by 23%.[20]
A study of rolling stops in Seattle determined that "results support the theoretical assertion that bicyclists are capable of making safe decisions regarding rolling stop",[21] while a 2013 survey of stop-as-yield in Colorado localities where it is legal reported no increase in crashes.[22] Another study done in Chicago showed that compliance with stop signs and stop lights by cyclists was low when cross-traffic was not present, but that most were still performing an Idaho Stop; and therefore "enforcing existing rules at these intersections would seem arbitrary and [capricious]".[23]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3uron33ftklm4hs6f2qhnya5/bafkreigt4o7dvvjyavxxeupmhfn5mo67ax24hjxrkt2rjy4gmzf3kh7an4)
