Timeline for Who goes first? Person disembarking bus or the bicycle?
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| Jul 10, 2019 at 17:12 | comment | added | Kyralessa | @Damon, well, I live down in the corner of Germany near Basel. Perhaps down here cyclists are more polite. Maybe it's the Swiss influence. :D | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 16:54 | comment | added | Damon | @Kyralessa: I'm speaking about Germany (which the questions is about). Cyclists definitively do not follow traffic rules here. Things like this are in the news almost every day, and I've personally failed to kill, er... I mean, succeeded to stop before killing a traffic-light-ignoring biker twice this summer already. I've been hit as pedestrian by one some 3-4 weeks ago, and there's some on the footwalk practically every time I go to town. It's anarchy. | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 8:49 | comment | added | Kyralessa | @Damon It depends on your country. If you're speaking of the US, I would agree with you. Over here in Germany and Switzerland, most cyclists appear to obey the traffic laws, from what I've seen. The traffic laws are also much more accommodating to cyclists: some one-way streets allow both directions for cyclists; there are bicycle-only traffic lights; there are lots of bike paths with appropriate yield signs at crossings for either the bicycles or the cars. Perhaps lack of this accommodation in the US accounts for cyclists' behavior there. | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | Damon | "I would expect the riders to be aware..." -- you should not. Bicyclists are notorious for violating traffic rules. You should not assume they'll stop on a red traffic light, you should not assume they'll not ride on the pedestrian walk (children up to 11 years have to, but otherwise it's forbidden). And no, you shouldn't assume they won't run into you getting off the bus, and then swear at you for "not being careful". There's no license plate on a bike, so the risk of being caught is low. The irony is that if as car driver, you kill one of them ignoring a red light, it's your fault. | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 11:01 | comment | added | gsamaras | Hellenic weather is smooth, not too hot, not too cold, no drastic changes, something that German weather lacks of but I see your point. However, when writing this, I had in mind by home, where you have the sea breeze. Sure an interesting discussion though! | |
| Jul 6, 2019 at 10:21 | comment | added | Travel guy | why a paradox? Greek weather is terrible to cycle in. Nobody wants to cycle on 35 degrees, get sunburned and sweat like a pig. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 18:49 | answer | added | blahblah | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 6:30 | comment | added | Kyralessa | Where you're not aware of the law, a good rule of thumb is that faster traffic should yield to slower traffic, since faster traffic has more potential to cause injury. Even if a pedestrian is illegally crossing in the middle of a busy street, it doesn't give drivers the right to hit him. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 5:56 | vote | accept | gsamaras | ||
| Jul 5, 2019 at 0:09 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 21:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 4, 2019 at 17:13 | answer | added | Willeke♦ | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 17:01 | history | edited | Willeke♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Taken out the subscript.
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| Jul 4, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1146795944069017600 | ||
| Jul 4, 2019 at 14:00 | history | edited | CMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improved English
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| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:41 | answer | added | Carl | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:37 | answer | added | DCTLib | timeline score: 59 | |
| Jul 4, 2019 at 13:21 | history | asked | gsamaras | CC BY-SA 4.0 |