Originally Posted by randya

Ticket spread - IMO, motorists are more clued in to behaving better when they see an official police vehicle, and many of the cyclists were ticketed for doing things they believed were legal, like riding to the left on a one-way or leaving the bike lane to avoid hazards or in preparation for a left turn. Furthermore, there's no way to tell if the numbers reported by the police are accurate. Three of my coworkers were ticketed on bicycles, which leads me to believe more tickets were issued to bicyclists than the police reported.