I gotten so frustrated that while I am doing some of my part in saving the world & lessening traffic jams (sure there is more, but here I do not need to list them all) that when I come to an intersection with traffic lights & crosswalk lights, telling you when it is safe for you to cross, that I have to wait forever to right away to use the crosswalk! The lights are setup to give the BLANKING automobiles the a long time to cross or turn, before I am allowed to use the crosswalk or just the intersection, without a crosswalk! Given what my riding does for the Earth & All Living Beings & decreasing traffic, all automobiles should instantly have to come to a stop/LIGHTS TURN RED & wait for me!
Of course if we all had Scandinavian style whole roadway or at least completely protected & separated cycle lanes, than this would a much less of a problem.
I use myself as an specific example for all cyclist. Imagine all cyclist have the same problem.
After posting exchanges, I thought of another parts to add to my idea (when former roadways have been turned into restricted to only all <including bicyclists & excluding all motorized vehicles> pedestrians roadways)-
Yes, the rules/laws are created so that if there are no traffic at all & red light (in the pedestrian’s or pedestrians’ direction), then it is legal for them to cross the roadway(s) against the red light. Not just at the intersection(s) either, Illegal Jaywalking should only be when there are traffic/like Frogger video game.
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If any pedestrian(s) come-up to an intersection(s) at more than one-direction, not only do the automobile’s or automobiles’ have wait as the traffic lights go from green-yellow-red (or the at stops sign or signs or nothing at all the pedestrian go first), but if there are more than 1-pedestrian, then all the pedestrians go first, in all directions & at the same time.
Example- pedestrians (including bicyclists) are in the South, North, East & West directions & arrive before/same time/shortly after the automobile(s), then all the pedestrians go at the same time, as the traffic lights, for automobile(s), go from Green-Yellow-Red. I cannot see how if the other part of the idea is okay that these parts would be a problem.
Given what my riding does for the Earth & All Living Beings & decreasing traffic, all automobiles should instantly have to come to a stop/LIGHTS TURN RED & wait for me!
Thereby negating everything you did that day. Congratulations.
Absolutely not
Where i live we just go if the way is clear. We have bike crossing lights too but they’re not mandatory, just suggestions to let you know it’s definitely safe to cross. Can’t you just cross (even on foot if necessary) whenever the way is clear?
Sure, I do not think it is illegal, unlike Jaywalking. I go if there are no automobiles, but with South Fl.’s southern areas population always increasing*, there are lesser & lesser chances that there are no automobiles.
*- With the northern areas (more political power) getting the state-county politicians to building a ton of cheap condos-houses in formerly lesser populated density-traffic southern areas & away from northern areas’ tourist & their already high population density-traffic for ever increasing low-minimum wage workers to live away from northern areas,
The lack of critical thinking causing me to reply with this is unbelievable,
To all those repliers-readers claiming that pushing the crosswalk button to cause the traffic lights to automatically go from green to yellow and then red, stopping the automobiles sooner, for the bicyclists wanting to cross, eliminates the benefits to The Livable Earth & Living Beings. As I have already said, in other reply, it does not because the automobiles were going to stop & go any ways, or there is no need to press the crosswalk button in the first place, can just ride through an empty enough intersections.
Another huge benefit if my idea was done, then more people would be incentivized to use a bicycle, run, jog or/& walk, instead of using any vehicle (even greener electric & Etc. vehicles) is way greener, in many ways.
With all the overpopulating of South Fl., some rural & spacial areas the politicians have designed more condos/housing, that even drivers are suffering a lot more as well. While I have no automobile, I do have to use roommate’s for Vet. visits. On one such visit, I decide to also travel to nearest post office (thumbs up for only USPS), should take at most 30-45-minutes, only because of so many stop signs, took 2±hrs… There was the only north/south mixed use (bicyclist, public buses, emergency vehicles & supposed to be only unmotorized pedestrians), separated & continuous roadway, with traffic lighted-push button crosswalks intersections, that forced me wait for 5-separate public buses to ride up (separately), wait & ride through, before able to drive through, NOT A SINGLE BICYCLIST CAUSING THE DELAY. Traffic after that just to cross or turn onto US1, line of automobiles from before mixed use pedestrian roadway to connecting intersection to US1. Then there was tons of rosd construction, which like most greater cities areas, South Fl. is famous for. I called our information line, we can no longer connect straight to public services & at least my commissioner dismiss helping to get stuff done with other public services, & was able file a complaint. What good that does, no idea.
