Elaine Thompson, Associated Press
The next time a bicyclist whines about how bad motorists are about sharing the road with them, I'm going to swear. I go through the Cherry Hill interchange in the Farmington/Fruit Heights area on my way to and from work, and I can't tell you how many times a cyclist blows through a red light there. They also blow through the light on Farmington's Main Street and Sheperd Lane — even if it is a "T" intersection. And just yesterday afternoon on my way home from work a cyclist blazed through the stop sign on Mountain Road in Fruit Heights, without so much as a slow-down at all.
There may not have been much traffic, that's not the point. If I have to obey the laws of the road while driving my car, a bicyclist must do the same thing as the laws of the highway are the same for bikes and cars.
Mike Stewart
Clearfield
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My personal experience is that bicyclists obey the traffic laws more than car drivers. Certainly there are bicyclists who do not. But any drive on I-15 where the speed limit is 65mph and road conditions allow, you'll see that 75% or more of More..
Way ahead of you on the swearing at cyclists part. It's not just the traffic laws cyclists should be adherent to, but I'd like to see them acknowledge the laws of physics some times, too. The law (wrongly) puts all the blame on the motorist More..
A big problem for cyclists is that traffic lights often are not timed for them. So for example if a cyclist does not "run" a red light, in all likelihood the light will have changed while he or she is in the intersection, and there are plenty More..