Originally Posted by
aMull
Blowing the reds and stop sings seems even more worth it now if i get to piss of bunch of pretentious safety nannies that care too much about some cager's feelings. The law can go **** itself. It's made for cars, in cities built for cars, on roads populated by cars. Have fun pretending you're one and thinking cagers will respect you for it or even give a toss.
Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions. RLJing doesn't piss me off, I just regard it as unnecessary and the arguments in favour of it irrational. As for "pretentious safety nannies", sorry chum, I'm not pretentious, nor am I a nanny, tho' I am in favour of safe riding. Neither do I care about any driver's feelings, but I have found that courtesy goes a long way in interactions with them.
As for the law being made for cars, you are simply wrong. Most traffic legislation is for all road users, with subsets applying to different classes of them. Some applies only to drivers, some only to classes of drivers, depending on the type of vehicles being driven, some to horsedrawn vehicles, some to cyclists, etc.
That it is often badly, illogically and unfairly applied is unquestionable. That US driving tests are generally inferior in the demands they make on would-be drivers by comparison with those in Europe and that this leads to poorly educated drivers (expresing similar views to many UK drivers, sadly) not knowing how cyclistsare entitled to ride and where, is pretty much a given.
Since there are forumers who do stop at red lights and generally obey traffic laws and hav done for many years without real problems, can you explain why this is so, when so many feel that the opposite is true?