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maybe its my metro area but I feel motorists are more likely to not follow the rules. There is cyclists but its a pretty low percentage. The ones that do though really do and make themselves a nuisance. There was a guy that would just ignore the red light on a major intersection. like two four lanes. during rush hour because I guess he felt since everything is slowed up he can just fuck right through.
Nah, you're correct. Any time a study is done on this it finds that either drivers and cyclists break the law at similar rates, or drivers break it more.
There's also the difference in why they do it. Drivers break the law out of convenience. Because it's easier to do, or because it gets them where they're going faster. Cyclists sometimes do that, but far more than drivers, they're likely to do it because it's safer. Because laws are often made for car drivers in ways that aren't appropriate to cyclists, and so breaking the law is often safer. The classic example is treating stop signs as give way signs in places that haven't implemented an Idaho Stop rule.
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Depending on your local that could be perfectly legal. It's called an Idaho Stop. You can treat stop signs as yields and red light like a stop sign. You're not supposed to treat a red light as a yield so if he's doing that it's illegal everywhere as far as I know.
there are cars in the intersection which you can't do with a stop so its not treating the red light like a stop.
My 2 cents is the closer to a downtown you get the better the drivers are because of proximity however the cyclists are shit at obeying rules. Outside downtown cars are horrible in respecting cyclists who usually end up better at obeying laws because of the speeds.
You're actually right and it goes down to how drivers respond to their surroundings. Areas with narrower streets, more traffic, and more pedestrians encourage drivers to be more observant passively.
When you have a wide, clear, straight road people pay less attention.
It's a psychology thing and some people are trying to design roads around the concept