Disadvantages Of Bicyclist

A. They are passionate and vocal. They turn out in large numbers and ride their bikes

My main speculation from this assignment was definitely that people were much more apt to make a complete stop while being observed rather than not being observed. When people were being watched they usually stopped because someone was watching or because they wanted to see who the random person was standing at the stop sign. People that are oblivious to the fact that they are being watched are at a higher risk of rolling the stop sign or not stopping at all. Another theory I found in my research was that it really didn’t matter what gender the person was. Both male and female seemed to have roughly the same percentage of stopping, rolling, and not completing the stop at all. Most of my other data is very random, the most distinct piece of

Drivers are not all are inherently bad people who are just out to run down bicyclists, just as white people are not all white supremacists; however, there is an unknown bias we all have due to the influence of media and infrastructure. This cannot be undone easily, it can be, but it takes an abundance of work, dialogue, and understanding between countless people. Dowsett explains this by saying, “... Bike lanes are relatively new, and still just kind of an appendage on a system that is inherently car-centric.”

Toole Design Group, Bike Sharing In The United States: State Of the Practice and Guide to Implementation. N.p.: Toole Design Group, n.d. Print

In New York City, this has become a necessary tool for the Police Department officers, which they stop and question a pedestrian. Across the United States this has become known as the Terry stop. The name came from a case

EPD says while the officer said he knew who Brinkerhoff-Riley was, he said he still had to give her the ticket for running a stop sign because the intersection was known for a lot of traffic violations.

If the light is about to turn red, if it is safe to do so, stop rather than trying to make it through the intersection.

Across the United States, every year millions of license drivers choose to ride motorcycles rather than drive automobiles for a variety of reasons; Reasons range from individual pleasure to a much more cost effective way to travel. The universal motorcycle helmet law debate over the past forty years has revolved around whether the federal government should adopt a universal helmet law that mandates all motorcyclists to wear helmets at all times when riding to reduce societies economic cost, or whether the individual rider should have the right to choose rather to wear or not wear a helmet.

Red-light-running camera enforcement is a relatively new technology. The cameras where implemented for use in the United States in the 1990s. The technology is available to help reduce a substantial problem that causes injuries and fatalities after a person enters a signalized intersection when displayed a red light in their traveled direction. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has defined the term "red-light-running" in Issue Brief 6 as "the act of entering, and proceeding through, a signalized intersection after the traffic signal has turned red." (Federal Highway Administration [FHWA], 2009 (6), p1) While the FHWA is a proponent of this technology, controversy has been driven by claims from opponents who cite privacy issues, maintenance concerns, and claims that the intervals for yellow/amber signals have been shortened for the sole purpose of generating funds for the states and municipalities that use the technology. Looking back at the history of the traffic signals, authorities that control them and some recent studies may allow for a better understanding of the cameras and their use today.

Since moving to Gainesville in the early '80's I've seen a slow and steady increase in red light running. A red light runner was something I noticed only occasionally. Seeing an occasional red light runner increased to seeing one about once a month, then to once a week, increasing again to once a day. Now I see many red light runners every day. Running a red light increases the chance of being involved in a crash, furthermore, running a red light thrusts people and property needlessly and selfishly into harms way. Rules, laws, limits, signs, and lights, have all been established, enacted, and erected, not only to control the flow of traffic, but to make driving safer. The first speed limits of 12 MPH in the cities and 15 MPH on country roads for motorized vehicles was set in Connecticut in 1901 (History.com). The world's first electric traffic light was installed at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland Ohio in 1914 (History.com). And while walk/don't walk signs debuted in Washington D.C. in 1939 as revealed by research conducted by Richard Weingroff, it is unknown when or where the first was installed. Arguably all of these improvements helped to make driving safer. Of course all the laws, rules,

At the same time a 55-yearold man was headed South bound on South 27th street in a 1999 Honda Passenger car. The woman, failed to stop at the red light and struck the man's vehicle in the middle of the intersection. The woman was cited for failure to stop at a red light violation.

Officers can make traffic stops for simple things such as tail lights being out or license plates not be legible. The person being pulled over has no idea why it would be any issue to begin with. Most people only associate the police with responding to acts of violence, police chases and getting in shootouts. This is because the information is televised in biased views that don’t show both sides of the altercation. Also, all that information can be misinterpreted based on a generalization of that persons group or community.

from October 2013- May 2014 shows that Connecticut police made about 370.000 traffic stops during this time period. Black make only 7.9 percent of the state population, however, they accounted more than 14 percent of traffic stops. Latinos, on the other hand, account for 9.7 of the state population, however, represented 11.8 percent of traffic stops in comparison to whites that accounted for 2.65 percent of all traffic stops. This gruesome data shows that there is a disproportionate rate of who’s being stopped. Further, in an analysis of the San Diego Police Department data, found that African Americans in that particular city are 50 percent more likely to be stopped than any other driver. Consequently, Smith et al. (2003) report that African American drivers were 17 percent more likely than their white counterparts to be ticketed by the North Carolina Highway Patrol.

STOP sign-controlled. STOP sign-controlled intersections are controlled by STOP-signs from one or more directions. STOP signs require full stop of vehicles upon reaching the entrance of the intersection and they can proceed only if no vehicles are passing from the other directions. This type of unsignalized intersection can be further categorized into minor-road-only stop control and multi-way stop control. Minor-road-only control intersections require at least one direction controlled by a STOP sign and

Defective Cycle: There are situations when the collision may involve a motor vehicle and a bicyclist but the cause of the accident may not be the vehicle but a defective bicycle. If there is some mechanical fault with the cycle, the