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.)

[avjudge]

A couple of weeks ago, around dusk, I was at the light in Union Square, in the middle lane to make a left turn to stay on Somerville Ave. A bicyclist was on my right and what turned out to be a Somerville PD SUV on my left. When the cross traffic cleared, bicyclist went, and the policeman put on his lights & stopped her. Be warned, it happens!

As for one-way streets, I have no objection to people biking down our one-way street. It makes no sense to me to climb north halfway up Winter Hill just to turn around and ride down the hill to your destination to the south. Everyone on our street bikes two ways. I'm not saying this is appropriate on all streets, but I've never felt the least twinge of resentment toward those who do this on ours. (Of course there's also that illogical feeling of ownership of our street - if I'm crossing to a neighbor's house I'll often walk diagonally up the street rather than cross at right angles.)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

If only they'd do that with cars.

[jlauspitz.livejournal.com]

Exotic travel sight: I was once in a university town in foreign country (Belgium) and saw a bunch of bikes stop for a red light even though there was no traffic in either direction on the cross street. Amazing!