Cops Crack Down on Cyclists

• As a resident of SF of 15+ yrs, I experience constant threats from CARS, not bicycles. The cyclist who caused the death of a pedestrian deserves admonishment/punishment. I drive and bicycle in SF and the worst offenders are car drivers... admittedly most of those cars don't have SF parking permits on their bumper. Why don't the police ticket cars that don't give cyclists use of the full lane? Why don't police ticket cars that take right turns at red lights even though there are pedestrians present? Why don't police/dpt ticket the vehicles parked (illegally btw) IN the bicycle lane? For all you haters in cars, I brake for bicyclists and motorcyclists and will use my car to protect them from your hateful disrespectful driving. 

• Bicycles are supposed to roll slowly through stop signs and lights as long as you time it right, it's a normal safe riding practice. The first lesson I learned was never put your feet on the ground while riding until you are about to get off, it teaches control and balance. Bicycles are much slower to accelerate than cars, if a cyclist stops completely at a stop sign the drivers behind them would leap out of their cars and beat the shit out of them. Also the lights change to fast in some places that if you came to a complete stop you wouldn't make it through the intersection before the traffic started moving again and trap the cars behind halfway through the lights, hence getting the shit kicked out of you. Also some bikes have back pedal breaks, so there wouldn't be break leavers on the handlebars.

• also i think you have small dicks

• I learned that left hand up meant right turn, left hand out meant left turn, and left hand down meant stop.  I these gestures mimic the old driving hand signals of automobiles before there were electric turn signals.  Or the gestures might be of older origin and stem from bicycles previously having a foot brake and one hand brake, generally located on the right hand side.  Hence, all the signaling with the left hand and arm.

• Evidently not duh enough, because left are out and down is the signal for stop. Left is simply left arm out.

• How can you get a ticket for not signaling on a bicycle? BY NOT SIGNALING. Right arm out for the right.  Left arm out and down for the left.  Duh! If you have a driver's license you should know this fact:  Bicycle, like autos, trucks, motorcycles, Segways, etc. are considered moving vehicles.  As part of this category, at a minimum, one has the same responsibilities as a car on the road.  So, a bicyclist should signal turns.  He must also stop at lights, stop signs, etc.  No driving on sidewalks.

• About time the SFPD start doing their job.  Sadly it took a death of a pedestrian for them to act.

• Of course it does. Market, it's back to bike school for you.

• Oh jeez, will you get a life? Trolling Streetsblog, The Snitch, SFist just so you can repeatedly express the same tiresome point--is this a full-time job for you?

• There already are. But yeah, point that finger at cars some more...there's still 3 fingers pointed right back at you, bikey.

•  It probably means that your co-worker didn't stick their arm out to indicate that they were turning.

•  There need to be regular, unnanounced crackdowns on lawbreaking bicyclists AND cars.

• My co-worker got a ticker for 'not signaling.'  What the hell does that mean on a bike?

• So, how is this an argument against ticketing bicycles for blowing through red lights and stop signs?

• You ninny. I ride a motorcycle in car lanes and nearly get killed 4 times each day. Grow a pair. You get your own lane and still complain. Sheesh.

• I'll support tickets for cyclists when I can confidently use a bike lane in this city without fear of being right hooked by a driver who isn't watching (I got clipped by some idiot's passenger-side mirror the other day), or worse, a Muni driver plowing me into the curb (two weeks ago). I've been almost killed by drivers more times than I can count while riding my bike lawfully and most of the times in marked bike lanes! When I can confidently do that without fear of being hit by a shitty driver, then maybe I'll support giving fixed-gear riders shit.

• It's about goddamn time.  There need to be regular, unnanounced crackdowns on lawbreaking bicyclists in every neighborhood in the city.

• I saw that this morning, only by having a cop handing out tickets on every corner, traffic actually got more dangerous for those of us on the road.

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