Photo by ckingGrist.org reports: Sometimes France is so fricking enlightened it hurts. Lawmakers recently decided to allow “cyclists in some cities to disregard red lights at certain intersections,” Treehugger writes. Paris will be testing the idea at 15 intersections, and Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Nantes have been running the same experiment for a while. If the pilot goes well, 1,700 Parisian intersections could operate according to these new rules. Basically, under the new rules, bikes still have to yield — like any normal, responsible person would do! — to pedestrians and cars that have the green light. In the test runs, these rules haven’t led to any increase in fatalities. No data is available on whether the new system has led to a decrease in people yelling at cyclists for breaking traffic laws that never made sense for them anyway. Read article here; In France, cyclists can run red lights legallySeems a bit bizarre - how do you know which intersections have the new regulations? I would agree that encouraging a more green mode of transport is great but "interpretation" could lead to some accidents! Monday, 13 February 2012
Jumping the Red Light in France
Photo by ckingGrist.org reports: Sometimes France is so fricking enlightened it hurts. Lawmakers recently decided to allow “cyclists in some cities to disregard red lights at certain intersections,” Treehugger writes. Paris will be testing the idea at 15 intersections, and Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Nantes have been running the same experiment for a while. If the pilot goes well, 1,700 Parisian intersections could operate according to these new rules. Basically, under the new rules, bikes still have to yield — like any normal, responsible person would do! — to pedestrians and cars that have the green light. In the test runs, these rules haven’t led to any increase in fatalities. No data is available on whether the new system has led to a decrease in people yelling at cyclists for breaking traffic laws that never made sense for them anyway. Read article here; In France, cyclists can run red lights legallySeems a bit bizarre - how do you know which intersections have the new regulations? I would agree that encouraging a more green mode of transport is great but "interpretation" could lead to some accidents! 
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