#StopSigns:
This weekend I used a video camera and a single line of code to capture short video clips of every car that ran the stop sign in front of my house.
We live on a very low-volume street; ~12 cars/hour on the weekend.
In eight hours of footage, my setup detected 79 stop sign runners. That's almost 10 per hour. 83%.
@DrTCombs In a recent conversation, a non-cycling friend said to me "several weeks ago I saw a bicyclist run a stop sign and it made me angry." Yet I see multiple motor vehicle drivers run stop signs every day. And the damage that can be done by a bicycle versus a motor vehicle isn't even comparable. So why are cyclist violations so memorable but motor vehicle violations are not? #motornormativity
@MartyCormack This is such a frustrating situation!
Bicyclists are small, pose very little danger to others, have exceptional awareness of their surroundings, and are demonstrably less at risk when they roll through stop signs.
Cars are big, heavy, fast, and impose deadly force on others. Drivers have very limited awareness of their surroundings, and are protected on all sides from conflict at intersections by roll cages & airbags....
@MartyCormack ...yet, as you point out, it's the people on bikes who inspire rage--often deadly rage--when they roll through a stop.
WHY?
So much of it is how we, culturally, have been trained to view people in cars as "doing important things that need doing" and people on bikes as "just goofing off and getting in the way of traffic."
IDK how to fix it.
