Rather than wait around for Albany to pass legislation permitting cyclists to treat red lights as Yield signs, a group of safe streets activists have taken it upon themselves to install guerrilla street signs along the Flushing Avenue bike lane advising cyclists to do just that.

The Transformation Department, an anonymous group of safe street activists who previously put out traffic cones adorned with sunflowers on the edge of the Chrystie Street bike lane as a way to manifest safety improvements along the route, claimed responsibility for the Flushing Avenue signs.

For our most recent mission we put up these signs at intersections on Flushing Avenue with no cross traffic. #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/g28FWWx4Vg — Transformation Dept. (@NYC_DOTr) June 21, 2017

A Transformation Department spokesperson told us the signs were put up on the intersections of Flushing Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue, Claremont Avenue, Carlton Avenue, and N. Oxford Street. Those T-intersections were specifically chosen because, despite the fact that they're "intersections with little, if any pedestrian traffic and no cross vehicular traffic" the group says that the "NYPD has been known to set up ticket stings here" to give cyclists tickets for running red lights.

Rather than focus on giving cyclists tickets for proceeding safely through red lights at T-intersections, the Transformation Department told Gothamist the NYPD could ticket motorists who block the Flushing bike lane (or chase cyclists down with their cars) and also "direct its resources to priority corridors where enforcement might actually make a difference in terms of pedestrian and cyclist safety." In addition, the group said the signs should be law anyway, since they propose a "common-sense practice" that's legal in a number of other cities.

While the city isn't moving towards Idaho stops anytime soon, there was a bill introduced in front of the City Council last year to allow cyclists to use pedestrian signals when they allowed movement before traffic lights did, otherwise known as leading pedestrian intervals.