You probably hadn’t considered the difference. At a stop light you wait until the light changes, but at a stop sign you look and go. A bicycle should follow the same rules, right. Not in Idaho. The law allows cyclists to treat stop lights like stop signs which makes since in rural Idaho where there may not be any traffic at all despite the need for a light some of the time. What about a stop signe? Well, you know we roll through those all the time, first checking for traffic. And that’s legal in Idaho. Rules for a sparsely populated state? San Francisco, though is considering these rules. Read the article but don’t forget to read the comments below it.
The San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) bicycle advisory committee (BAC) will consider a proposal for changing California law to allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yields and red lights as stops. If the BAC likes the idea, they will forward the proposal on to the MTC which can eventually forward their suggestion to the California legislature.
