Somerville PD stopping cyclists running red lights (Sat 11:45am)

[dcltdw]

3 officers standing by the CVS stopping cyclists. Not sure if they're ticketing or not, but I suspect so.

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[paradoox.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Now if they stopped people from biking the wrong way, we'd really be making progress. (OK, I think it was Belmont, but in the last day some bicyclist came down the one-way bike lane against the direction of travel. Fortunately I happened to notice before I opened my car door in their face.)

[dcltdw]

I don't have enough data to form an opinion.
If there have been bike/pedestrian or bike/car collisions or near-collisions there recently, then yes, raising awareness/enforcement is a good idea.

I'm in favor of changing the "bikes stop at red lights" to "bikes yield at red lights", so I think there's room for reasonable behavior.

I realize the phrase "reasonable behavior" in a discussion of bicyclist behavior in Boston is a bit like throwing red meat to a pack of hungry dogs. :)

[somergirl80.livejournal.com]

"YAY" is my thought on this too!! I cannot begin to tell you how many times I've nearly been hit by some fool on a bike while it was at a red light and I was walking in the cross walk. Just the other day someone nearly hit my dog. Don't even get me started on driving on the road with them. They dart out in front of cars and act like they own the road. Of course this isn't all cyclists. There are many who are very respectful and follow the rules.