SPONSORED: Tracy Codd: Washington State bicyclists now allowed to yield at stop signs rather than come to complete stop In October of this past year, the Washington Legislature changed the basic rules of the road for people riding bicycles. Bicycle riders may now treat most stop signs as yield signs. In most circumstances, bicyclists can now slow down, look all ways for safety, and then proceed through the stop sign without coming to a complete stop. This is slightly different than a “California Stop”, which is used to describe a driver (or bicyclist) who rolls through a stop sign without stopping or disregards the stop sign completely and proceeds through without slowing or stopping.