>>1356234There needs to be some agreed upon set of rules for anything (cages, bikes, or pedestrians), the trouble with "the rules" in most cager shit holes is that they're not designed with reality in mind, which invites rule breaking and cultivates an air of lawlessness for those whose safety is ignored by the rules as written.
So you get peds crossing in the middle of a 1km stretch because there are no crossings in between: this is "jaywalking". Or cyclists disobeying a traffic signal set up for cagers because they know they're more likely to die if they wait for the green, this apparently means it's ok to run them over at any time for any reason.
Even "salmoning" is usually a sign of a bad street design. A study in Denmark showed that when street design accounts for real world usage, cyclists break "the rules" at something like 12.5% the rate that cagers do so. Bicycles are inherently far safer because of the physical limitations of a bicycle, but they get the blame because the premise tends to be that cagers can do no wrong and everyone should defer to some soccer mom going 100 while talking on a mobile phone.
