[operatingthetan]

>I live adjacent to a four-way stop and there's an incident where a cyclist fails to yield nearly hourly.

You should try paying attention to the cars. I live near one (elsewhere) as well and I see cars driving straight through it all the time. Why have a double standard?

[seanmcdirmid]

I think all of us agree that cars shouldn’t blow through intersections, neither should bicycles. It definitely raises my eyebrows more if cars do it (rare but sadly increasingly less rare) vs if bicycles do get it (fairly common).

[DeRock]

> It definitely raises my eyebrows more if cars do it (rare but sadly increasingly less rare)

It is extremely common, the default really, for cars to roll through 4-way stops.

[seanmcdirmid]

Maybe where you live? It isn’t as common here in Seattle, although as I said it is definitely becoming less rare.

[cma]

A rolling stop is not blowing through which he was talking about I think.

[esoterica]

When cars do a “rolling stop” what they are really doing is slowing down to 10-15mph, which is the same speed as a cyclist “blowing” through a stop sign at full speed.

[seanmcdirmid]

I live in Seattle, so you’ll see bikes mostly blow through stop signs going down a decline, they can faster than 10-15 even without e-assist. Cars, when they do ignore the stop sign, can be going up or down, however. If I see a bike going downhill approaching a stop sign, I assume they are going to try and ignore it if it won’t obviously get them killed. Uphill, bikes care more about stopping since they aren’t losing momentum.