My neck of the woods you have to dismount for a crosswalk. Car is obviously in the wrong but they’ll try to blame you for not following the rules.
crustyedges on
Wild that we live in a world where drivers will just blatantly not stop at a HAWK beacon. Those are the legal equivalent of a red light when first activated in solid red, then the legal equivalent of a stop sign once it starts flashing. So drivers are required to come to a stop, whether or not anyone is even in the crosswalk (Aka it’s not just an extra “warning” to yield for someone in the crosswalk like the yellow RRFBs).
Stuff like this makes me yearn for automated camera enforcement
LghtlyHmmrd on
There’s a bike trail where cars never slow down on the streets where it crosses a street. So, I tend to take streets that run parallel to the trail because I am forever paranoid that a car won’t see me when I’m crossing.
carrotnose258 on
HAWKs are awful, there’s absolutely no reason not to differ a signal head design from a regular old traffic signal; why create something else that seems to indicate that its red is any less important than any other red? Yeah there’s two of them, but regular lights are, well, regular. If HAWKs are only at crosswalks, which usually have only passive traffic control or RRFBs, of course drivers will learn to treat them with as much disrespect as any other crosswalk despite the legal difference. They’ve been the bane of my existence for a while
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Always our fault..
Fuck Cars
My neck of the woods you have to dismount for a crosswalk. Car is obviously in the wrong but they’ll try to blame you for not following the rules.
Wild that we live in a world where drivers will just blatantly not stop at a HAWK beacon. Those are the legal equivalent of a red light when first activated in solid red, then the legal equivalent of a stop sign once it starts flashing. So drivers are required to come to a stop, whether or not anyone is even in the crosswalk (Aka it’s not just an extra “warning” to yield for someone in the crosswalk like the yellow RRFBs).
Stuff like this makes me yearn for automated camera enforcement
There’s a bike trail where cars never slow down on the streets where it crosses a street. So, I tend to take streets that run parallel to the trail because I am forever paranoid that a car won’t see me when I’m crossing.
HAWKs are awful, there’s absolutely no reason not to differ a signal head design from a regular old traffic signal; why create something else that seems to indicate that its red is any less important than any other red? Yeah there’s two of them, but regular lights are, well, regular. If HAWKs are only at crosswalks, which usually have only passive traffic control or RRFBs, of course drivers will learn to treat them with as much disrespect as any other crosswalk despite the legal difference. They’ve been the bane of my existence for a while