Friday, February 5, 2010

Nevermind the red light, I'm on a bicycle

The other day, in the intersection of Ocean and Soquel, I saw a bicycle riding crossing guard (off duty or on her way to another street) stop at a red light, look both ways, then pedal through.

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2 comments:

Yokota Fritz said...

Pedal across Soquel or across Ocean? both of them are pretty busy streets at that intersection

Bicicleta Bandito said...

yesh. but it was a low-traffic time of day. i was really impressed by the shear boldness and irony of a crossing guard blowing a red light in broad daylight. i mean, on so many levels, that's pretty ballsy. and then i recalled the pics of Amsterdam streets, what with the bike only green lights that open an entire intersection to bike traffic, and i think, now why can't we get that here?