Originally Posted by
kickstart
I have no problem with vehicle specific laws that take into consideration their advantages and disadvantages, which is a lot different than individuals making up their own personal rules. The former can be expected and anticipated by those who know the rules, the latter require others to play a guessing game trying to figure out what the freelancer is doing.
Not really. The
need to be predictable argument is without merit.
As long as bicyclists yield when required (which appears to largely be the case, and no one is advocating otherwise), it doesn't matter if other road users anticipate their actions or not. Bicyclists can't affect them beyond allowing those road users to possibly get through intersections a bit more quickly than would be possible had the bicyclists completely stopped. If the bicyclist has the right of way, traffic flows a little faster. If another road user has the right of way, the bicyclist waits until they exercise that right of way before proceeding.