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Do they have stop signs in Copenhagen? They use yield signs instead in the Netherlands.


People don't follow laws that don't really make sense. Bikes don't stop at stop signs. Cars don't go 50 in the 50 zone. Pedestrians don't wait for lights when there's nobody coming. These things don't really matter. But there are problems with people breaking rules that really do need to be followed, and those need to be enforced.

I think poor cycling behaviour here is a product of the lack of basic cycling infrastructure. Unless you're on the seawall, you often get to choose between which of two laws to break or between a legal or safe manoeuvre. A lot of people just say fuck it and do whatever they like. If there were reasonable paths to follow, we wouldn't see so many idiots making the rules up as they go.