[QUOTE=B. Carfree;17751321]You do know that one need not put a foot down to make a legal stop, don't you?

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But the point is, as this thread has illustrated several times, car operators don't always know what the next cyclist is going to do; the foot down establishes clearly that the rider is not doing a quick or "rolling" stop to break the right of way queue. OTOH, I've seen car operators take advantage of that, and take their turn out of order....