10-27-2015, 01:48 PM
(10-27-2015, 01:20 PM)Canard Wrote: Same goes for a car then. Does it make sense to have a car sitting there idling, wasting fuel, at a red light when no one else is around?
It really rubs me the wrong way when motorists start claiming that slowing them down causes pollution. At the worst of times, it feels like a threat: "You better not put anything else in our way, 'cause it's just going to result in more pollution and wasted fuel."
If you're asserting that we should have no red lights because sometimes cars are made to stop at them needlessly, you might have a point: shared spaces can work, I think, and there's a lot of evidence of that in other places. But part of shared spaces with eased traffic rules is that car traffic has to travel at human speeds: you can not expect to travel at fifty kilometres per hour in a heavy vehicle, and still have no traffic signs.
If you're just saying that you don't feel like you should be treated differently when behind the wheel of a car than someone on a bicycle is, that's bunk. A car is different than a bike. That's just a fact.