A bill seeking to allow bicyclists to roll through stop signs and red lights crashed in the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday.
Rep. Carol Moss, D-Holladay, the bill’s sponsor, argued it would improve safety by allowing bicyclist to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs — allowing cyclist to roll through a controlled intersection if no other traffic is present.
She said most bike accidents occur at intersections, and allowing cyclists to keep up some speed and cross through them quickly if clear is safer — and most cyclists do it anyway.