You are traffic, and here is the sentence that says so

1Watch

Nobody in this picture knows who goes first

Two vehicles, one junction, and a rule that already covers this exactly. Neither of them is using it, and that is what this whole badge is about.

2The idea

One sentence, and both halves arrive together

Here is the line, from a real vehicle code, in the words it is written in: every person riding a bicycle upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle. Other places word it differently and mean the same thing.

It is one sentence. The rights and the duties are joined in it with an and, and there is no version of the law where you are handed the first half on its own. This is one of the very few things about riding that is true in essentially every state and every province.

3The idea

What the rights half actually contains

You are entitled to be on the road. Not tolerated on it, not a guest on it, not there because a driver is being generous. You are a vehicle operator using a public road for the purpose it was built for, and you do not need anybody’s permission to be there.

It also means you are entitled to a lane and to your turn. At the junction in that film, whoever arrived first goes first, exactly as it would be between two cars. Nobody has to wave you through, and a wave is not what decides it.

4Look

Two halves of one sentence

Riders tend to have read the left half and drivers tend to have read the right half. It is the same sentence, and it is not two rules that happen to sit near each other.

5The idea

And what the duties half contains

The duties are not a special set written for you. They are the ordinary ones, and you already know them from the passenger seat.
Stop at stop signs and red lights.
Travel in the direction the traffic in your lane travels.
Signal before you turn or change position.
Yield wherever a driver would have to yield.

The awkward part is the timing: the duty arrives at exactly the same moment as the right. A rider who wants the junction treated as theirs is also the rider who stops at the sign fifty feet before it. You cannot take the first without the second, because they were never separate.

6Decide

A stop sign on an empty street, nothing coming in any direction.

Roll it slowly, since there is nothing to stop forStop, because that is the same rule that gives you the laneStop if a car is watching, otherwise carry on

7Build it

Sort the sentence

Do it once and notice how many of the cards you had to think about. Most riders can fill one pile fast and the other one slowly.

8Find them

Which of these are duties you carry on a roadway?

Tap the ones that count.

9Say it

The whole badge in one line

Say it once now. It is the sentence to have ready for anybody who tells you to get on the pavement, and it is also the one that stops you arguing for the first half only.

10Do it

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