Rolling Stop....cycling situation (Read 1969 times)

Or do your route backwards so you are going against the bus at then end and only have to stop once - or not at all if you end at a different time.

Because the very first line of the original post contains the key phrase "commuting to work."

 

Because the very first line of the original post contains the key phrase "commuting to work."

 aaah I must have ignored that part - people don't do that where I'm from.

I love threads like this. I know this is illegal, but I think it's okay for me to do it anyway

 Well, traffic laws are kinda really just suggestions anyway, right?

Gaaaah, didn't want to comment but it'll drive me nuts if I don't.

First of all, there's no such thing as a moral obligation to follow the law. Because sometimes laws are immoral! Morality and laws both change.

Now, I commute and live by my bicycle. And I roll stops sometimes, and I run red lights sometimes when I feel it is reasonable to do so.  Many traffic lights in my area simply will not change for a lone cyclist because they operate on metal-sensing induction coils that a cyclist cannot trigger. So if there was no traffic to around to trigger the lights for me, I'd be stuck! The law requires that I wait out the (infinitely long) red light, but the infrastructure doesn't allow me to.

On the actual subject at hand, passing the bus is a judgment call. I had the opportunity to do it a couple weeks ago, but I didn't feel that I could safely. That said, had conditions been different, I definitely could have "mode-hopped" and walked my bike past the bus, and then continued.