Thoroughfares often intersect cross streets without stop signs or signals. Cars, not stoplights, check traffic. They stop and signal to turn, backing traffic up behind them, sometimes abruptly. Rear-end collisions happen. Should bikes act like cars here?
Same Roads, Same Rules suggests so. This is dangerous advice. Advocates of Same Rules: what say you?
(Case in point: intersection of Chestnut St. and Fuller St., an intersection on my commute. I want to turn left from northbound Chestnut St. onto Westbound Fuller St. on my way home (usually during the obscene evening rush hour that violates a once sleepy residential lane*, but I digress).)
*and which some casually suggest as a automobile commute option:
Bruce Henderson on June 10th, 2010 10:45 am: "I recommend that everyone use Chestnut or Centre." in response to this.
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Here's my take on Same Roads, Same Rules: advocates actually don't mean what they say, and will probably admit as much. Indeed the website describes what the term is "about", not what it denotes in plain English. And although it references "common rules" it doesn't list any. Instead there are separate 'tips for motorists' and 'tips for cyclists'.
Unfortunately, "Same Roads, Same Rules" validates the simplistic "Rules of the Road" notion many motorists hold in pretending that bikes can be treated just like cars.
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