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ideal bicycle rules
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Muriel Strand
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Nov 05, 2009 06:53 PST
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great idea! here's a first draft:
1. bicyclists on roads have the rights and responsibilities of motor
vehicles
1.a. bicyclists on roads have the option of acting like pedestrians
when no vehicles in motion are anywhere in view
2. bicyclists on sidewalks have the rights and responsibilities of
pedestrians
2.a. the rights and responsibilities of pedestrians are as follows: TBA
can't help noticing that pedestrians are allowed on roadways without
any training or certification.
muriel
Muriel Strand, P.E.
www.sustainablecalpers.blogspot.com
www.sustainablesacramento.blogspot.com
On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Ryan Sharpe wrote:
| | But but, bicyclists are required to use motor vehicle facilities
without
necessarily having gone through a training and certification process,
making them rather unique roadway users. I've been asked often enough
about equipment requirements and the rules-of-the-road at the Bicycle
Kitchen to have figured out that poorly-known laws -- especially those
that ill-serve bicycle use or seem illogical to bicyclists -- do
nobody
any good.
Maybe we should start drafting our own set of "ideal" bicycle +
traffic
rules, so we can get a better feel for what we should be asking for,
rather than merely complaining that the current system doesn't work.
I'm willing to host a wiki on my personal website to do this, if
anyone's interested in such a project.
--Ryan
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