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Re:Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law by prolepunk on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:20PM (#19636190)
The difference is that in the car all you do is press brake & gas, cycling requires some physical work to start up again.

I know it's breaking the law, and I don't usually do it, but when I cycle on a quiet residential street, I'm going to roll a stop sign. I know it's bad, but at that point I'm going home and I feel tired.

Re:Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law by parthdesai on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:51PM (#19636539)
Yeah my rule of thumb while cycling is, if it's an empty street i'll slow down so i can scan the other 3 sides and if it's completely empty i'll roll the stop sign. If there is a car/pedestrian, i'll come to a complete stop.
Re:Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law by gknoy on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:15PM (#19636820)
I feel like I would be a lot more frightened of getting hit by cross traffic (with right-of-way) in the rare case where one mis-judges whether cross traffic exists. I've had enough close calls (or times when I mis-judged whether someone was going to blow a red light/stop sign) when driving a car that I feel like doing rolling stops on a bike is nearly suicidal.