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I live in one of the Colorado counties mentioned in the article as already having this law on the books. The law works fine up here in the mountains, and we have a lot of cyclists and a lot of seasonal traffic. Of course, we don't have the traffic of a big city like San Francisco. Still, we don't have a lot of bike-car accidents or bike-pedestrian accidents at our intersections.

The thing is, the stop signs are treated as yield signs. If a biker just blows through the stop sign without yielding right-of-way, they can still be ticketed. So as far as safety concerns, I don't see it making any difference. The people who would ignore a "yield" are the people who are already ignoring a "stop" and are subject to being ticketed if they get caught. If you dart out in front of a car and get hit by that car, you'll still be found to be at fault (and you're the one who is going to wind up in the hospital)