Cycling in Waterloo Region

[zanate]

I know the "Idaho stop" includes treating red lights as yields as well as stop signs. I'm not so comfortable about this. Stop signs, on the one hand, are often used as traffic calming on the very streets that are good cycling routes, which makes them particularly obnoxious to someone on a bike who works for their own momentum. Having an Idaho Stop rule in effect for stop signs makes sense, so long as it's not treated as a carte blanche to blow through them-- you always need to be prepared to stop because you don't gain right of way.

But traffic lights are just not negotiable like that in my mind.

(Though that does leave unsolved the problem of traffic lights with loop detectors you can't find or trigger on a bike.)