10-29-2015, 10:01 PM
Police seem to ignore drivers that roll through stop signs and drive through amber and red lights. Speed limits aren't really considered anything but a bare minimum by most drivers... anytime I go the speed limit I find myself getting tail-gated. Watching the police ride their bicycles around downtown is pretty funny, they ride two abreast all the time, hop on and off the sidewalks with impunity and don't seem to have decent lights on their bike Setting up speed traps certainly will net far more ticket revenue than any bicycle blitz would. The gov't should add bicycle training to the school curriculum, I remember learning the rules of the road for bikes when I was a kid but I think it was because I was a safety patrol or something like that, not a whole-class type of thing.
That signal that she mentions on Erb in Waterloo is just a modification of an existing pedestrian signal that was already there... the pedestrian signal took 20-60 seconds (so it seemed) to activate and most people can cross the street before the signal would change so the only thing that old signal did was stop traffic long after pedestrians and cyclists had cleared the crossing.
Since most everyone pays property taxes that pay for local roads one could probably make the case that car drivers are subsidized by bike riders that don't own cars.
That signal that she mentions on Erb in Waterloo is just a modification of an existing pedestrian signal that was already there... the pedestrian signal took 20-60 seconds (so it seemed) to activate and most people can cross the street before the signal would change so the only thing that old signal did was stop traffic long after pedestrians and cyclists had cleared the crossing.
Since most everyone pays property taxes that pay for local roads one could probably make the case that car drivers are subsidized by bike riders that don't own cars.