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Streetsblog California
Stop-as-Yield Bill Dropped… for Now? Forever?
Boerner's staff emphasize that the Assemblymember plans to continue working on the issue, but that as of now there are no details about what a "robust and comprehensive bike and e-bike safety bill package" might contain.
July 18, 2023
Podcast: Eben Weiss, aka Bike Snob NYC, on Legalizing the Idaho Stop
We also discussed why ultimately U.S. cities should be building citywide networks of connected, protected bikeways with logical traffic light timing, so Idaho stop laws become unnecessary.
February 22, 2022
Newsom’s Deeply Disappointing Vetoes of Traffic Safety Bills
The governor relied on flawed safety data to argue that bike stop and "jaywalking" bills would somehow decrease safety, while data shows the opposite.
October 12, 2021
Legislative Update: Bikes at Stop Signs, Jaywalking, and Camera Enforcement on Buses
Key transportation safety and equity bills move forward after Senate Transportation Hearing
June 29, 2021
Arkansas Passes the ‘Idaho Stop,’ Allowing Cyclists to Yield at Red Lights
Arkansas becomes the second state to fully adopt Idaho's famous 1982 cycling safety law.
April 3, 2019
Full Bike Compliance With the Stop Sign Law: An Effective Spectacle
Countless bike commuters queued up for over a block yesterday to make a completely legal left turn on the Wiggle. As predicted, the demonstration showed the absurdity of how full compliance with the impractical stop sign law -- which makes no distinction between bikes and cars -- would actually play out.
July 30, 2015
SF Mayor: “I Won’t Bend to Interests Who Disregard Safety”
Contrasting with Supervisor London Breed's sensible position on the demonstration planned in response to the SFPD's impending bike crackdown, we bring you a dispatch from the hidebound side of City Hall -- Room 200.
July 30, 2015
SF Supe Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs
Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs.
July 30, 2015