{"id":7853,"date":"2009-04-07T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:10:02","slug":"cycling-road-the-physics-of-why-bicyclists-hate-stop-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; The physics of why bicyclists hate stop signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite the beliefs of many motorists, who tend to think every bicyclist who violates a traffic law is a reckless anarchist, most bike commuters &#8212; be they doctors, lawyers, plumbers, accountants, journalists, messengers or anarchists &#8211; use rolling stops because it&#8217;s what their bodies and nature demands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In their essay &#8220;Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs,&#8221; University of California physics professor Joel Fajans and Access transportation journal editor Melanie Curry write that requiring cyclists to follow the same complete-stop rules as motorists defies science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;While car drivers simply sigh at the delay&#8221; of a stop sign, they write, &#8220;bicyclists have a whole lot more at stake when they reach a stop sign.&#8221;&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/commuting\/2009\/04\/the_physics_of_why_bicyclists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the beliefs of many motorists, who tend to think every bicyclist who violates a traffic law is a reckless anarchist, most bike commuters &#8212; be they doctors, lawyers, plumbers, accountants, journalists, messengers or anarchists &#8211; use rolling stops because it&#8217;s what their bodies and nature demands. In their essay &#8220;Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}