Originally Posted by LV2TNDM
Instead of a right-of-way disaster by allowing cyclists to proceed, throwing caution to the wind, make four way stops YIELDS for bicyclists. This idea would be perfect for residential roads, where stop signs' main purpose is to slow traffic. Bicycles travel at a safe speed and therefore should not be "slowed" by incessant stop signs.
You may have something there, along with JamesV. I could live with bike-roads with 4-ways at every intersection, if I could treat the stop as a yield. Having a "WARNING, BIKE-ROAD CROSSING" sign below the cross-traffic stop signs would alert mvs AND cyclists that something was up and they would be more likely to yield the right-of-way to the bike-road cyclists, even though they wouldn't have to. So, I guess the next step is to try and get the Idaho bike law (stop=yield and red=yield after stopping) adopted here in Ontario.