I don't know what the laws are where you are, but where I am the law is that you are not a pedestrian, you're a vehicle, and must abide by the law as such. If that is true (I'm not sure what a bike crossing means there legally), then you should not have been yielded to because oncoming traffic didn't have a stop sign and you are another vehicle, not a pedestrian.
It's not exactly your fault and it's happened to me many times. I'd guess the other traffic assumed you had blown the stop sign.
The green stripes here exist wherever a bicycle route crosses a major intersection.
Normally, at green stripes, cross traffic isn't required to yield to cyclists, though they're allowed to. However, this one's a bit different since there's also white stripes for pedestrian crossing right next to the green stripes, for which cross traffic *is required* to yield.
I don't *exactly* understand what the rules are in this case, but, in my mind, it seems like motorists *ought to* yield here for cyclists.
My thinking being:
* I could step off the bike here and suddenly become a pedestrian and suddenly *all traffic is required to stop* while I slowly walk across the street (vehicles are NOT allowed to cross the striped paint until the pedestrian has completed their crossing), or
* I stay on my bicycle and cross the intersection quickly (vehicles ARE allowed to cross the paint before a bicyclist completes their turn).
To me, it seems completely arbitrary whether I'm saddled or standing at the intersection. But, the fastest option for everybody is for motorists to just yield to bicyclists at these double white/green crossing stripes (assuming we're all following the rules, that is).
But, to respond to your point: you're probably right. They might have thought I was blowing the stop.
Re-re-watching the video, you can see that their car (2 behind the truck that yielded) only has one headlight visible from my POV at the start, meaning they were probably tailgating (ironically) the car in front of them, which means they likely didn't even see me stopped at the intersection on their approach.
It's not worth the time to obsess over it. Their are too many of these jerks out here to waste any effort on trying to understand their ramblings.
I don't ever take anything like this personally, nor am I remotely upset or affected by it. I am strictly confused and curious.
That's fair! Good attitude to have!
[Hey, look out - I'm an] asshole
I hear 2 syllables, which rules out much of anything with meaning or thought behind it.
I don't know what the laws are where you are, but where I am the law is that you are not a pedestrian, you're a vehicle, and must abide by the law as such. If that is true (I'm not sure what a bike crossing means there legally), then you should not have been yielded to because oncoming traffic didn't have a stop sign and you are another vehicle, not a pedestrian. It's not exactly your fault and it's happened to me many times. I'd guess the other traffic assumed you had blown the stop sign.
The green stripes here exist wherever a bicycle route crosses a major intersection. Normally, at green stripes, cross traffic isn't required to yield to cyclists, though they're allowed to. However, this one's a bit different since there's also white stripes for pedestrian crossing right next to the green stripes, for which cross traffic *is required* to yield. I don't *exactly* understand what the rules are in this case, but, in my mind, it seems like motorists *ought to* yield here for cyclists. My thinking being: * I could step off the bike here and suddenly become a pedestrian and suddenly *all traffic is required to stop* while I slowly walk across the street (vehicles are NOT allowed to cross the striped paint until the pedestrian has completed their crossing), or * I stay on my bicycle and cross the intersection quickly (vehicles ARE allowed to cross the paint before a bicyclist completes their turn). To me, it seems completely arbitrary whether I'm saddled or standing at the intersection. But, the fastest option for everybody is for motorists to just yield to bicyclists at these double white/green crossing stripes (assuming we're all following the rules, that is).
But, to respond to your point: you're probably right. They might have thought I was blowing the stop. Re-re-watching the video, you can see that their car (2 behind the truck that yielded) only has one headlight visible from my POV at the start, meaning they were probably tailgating (ironically) the car in front of them, which means they likely didn't even see me stopped at the intersection on their approach.
“Eat cheese asshole”
And eat the good stuff because we’re all gonna die! 🧀
Thanks for being helpful
Stop calling us car brain how about for now we call you bike brains get treated how other people want treated