Stopping at signs not practical or realistic

What do bikers stopping at traffic lights and "all" stop signs have to do with cars and the way they yield to pedestrians?

Joyce Broadsword among others, seems to be famous for making up laws about issues they know little or nothing about thinking they apply to the real world.

Joyce, if you rode a bike or were a "biking enthusiast" you would know how impractical it would be in Sandpoint anyway, for someone on a bike to stop at "every" stop sign.

Ones at busy streets and the highway, yes, but in residential areas? There is one literally at almost every intersection. Why? Because a tunnel vision driver or two, some with a cell phone glued to their ear weren't paying attention and had a fender bender so the local authorities decided they needed a sign there.

How "real world" is it for a biker to get up momentum, then stop after 300 feet, get going again, then stop after another 300 feet, get going again, stop … you get the picture. Totally unrealistic except when the biker sees oncoming traffic.

Besides, as I've mentioned before, I have almost never gone out on my Cannondale, have come to a stop at a sign as I should, still straddling my bike, in the traffic lane, not off the bike, at the crosswalk. A car invariably stops on a busy street, inappropriately hold up traffic and waves me across. They then get irate when I refuse to disobey the traffic sign and not cross. So you tell us, what are we to think or do?

Your job is to legislate practical laws, not ones that continually make life more difficult and restrictive for the public with microscopic or no practical benefit.

Lawrence Fury

Sandpoint