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Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates.
(www.nytimes.com)
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The bicycle infrastructure is decades behind the Europeans, especially the Netherlands and the large cities in Germany. For example, there are traffic signals controlling bicycle traffic. The other problem, the lawyers can defend an idiot running red lights on a bicycle.
Laughing and crying in Berlin here after just three near death experiences on my way to work.
Surely it'll get better now that modal filters across residential streets were declared illegal.
I sympathise with the message but cycle infrastructure in German cities is bad to the extent there are parody songs about it