Idaho Stop
8th November 2022
The Idaho stop is the common name for laws that allow cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign. It first became law in Idaho in 1982, but was not adopted elsewhere until Delaware adopted a limited stop-as-yield law, the “Delaware Yield”, in 2017. Arkansas was the second state to legalize both stop-as-yield and red light-as-stop in April 2019. Studies in Delaware and Idaho have shown significant decreases in crashes at stop-controlled intersections.
This appears merely to legalize existing behavior on the part of bicyclists. I have yet to see anybody on a bicycle pay attention to either a stop sign or a red light.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:57
And when, as is inevitable, said cyclists start dying in large numbers because they are ignoring stop signs and red lights, the motorists will be blamed for failing to allow the cyclists freedom to ignore normal traffic laws.
November 11th, 2022 at 16:56
Think of it as evolution in action. Natural Selection can be a bitch.