People that roll and blow stop signs in Portland, aren't making any friends amongst most of the people having to drive and ride the bus...or that live in neighborhoods where cyclists roll through without stopping at stop signs. On one of the main routes having become popular for bike commuting in recent years, people not stopping for stop signs as they enter one of the city's most heavily congested thoroughfares, Broadway, pose particular problems on a complex section of NE Broadway intersected with small but important cross streets. Articles about this can be found on a search at bikeportland: 'Broadway Flint'. People on bikes not stopping at stop signs here are not the entire source of the problems, but their not stopping, raises potential for close calls and collisions.

In Portland, problems from people on bikes not stopping at stop signs have existed for years in another location on a street that started out as a sort of urban scenic recreational byway, and that gradually became a defacto bike commuter route, passing through a small, 7-9 block square, older 'garden style' Portland neighborhood. Search at bikeportland: Ladd's Addition. People living in the neighborhood don't mind bikes riding through, but but have found that bikes not stopping or even slowing at the stop signs, to at least a walking speed, works against the quality of life the neighborhood can offer.

Portland, as I suppose occurs in other big cities with some regularity, has had people riding, cross streets in front of buses, obliging the bus driver to stop short...passengers falling, injuring themselves.