Link: Introducing the Idaho Stop

Screenshot 2014-05-30 16.30.02For me, anyway. You may know about it already.

The Idaho Stop legalizes, sensibly, bicyclists treating red lights as stop signs, and stop signs as yield signs. This article at Vox makes a ton of sense.

As a bicyclist, I try to follow the law. I abhor riders who bust through intersections against the light, or shout at pedestrians to get out of the way. But there are many times, even in the city, when there are no cars at the intersection and stopping at the stop sign is just stupid. And times when you stop at a red light, cars pass and you can safely head through the red light. And when there aren’t cops around, you may feel a twinge, but you go. Just like they do in Idaho. Where it’s legal.

The Idaho Stop is so named, like the New York Minute, because that’s where it originated. Nice one.

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