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RE: ideal bicycle rules
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Terry Preston
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Nov 05, 2009 08:34 PST
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Muriel,
No student should be allowed to graduate high school without full travel
training, the duties and dangers of driving, bicycling, walking and public
transit use.
Studies find that fewer teenagers today are getting cars as a rite of
passage, due in part to the high cost. Yet, we still teach driving, and
only driving, in schools, assuming that this is the only way they'll travel
as older teens and adults. There are many impressive programs popping up,
"Green Teen Clubs' and the like, that teach these skills as extracurricular
activities but as basic as traveling is, they need to be part of the
required curriculum.
Terry Preston
Complete Streets Coordinator
WALKSacramento / 916-446-9255
-----Original Message-----
From: Muriel Strand [mailto:aun-@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:54 AM
To: rgsh-@speakeasy.net
Cc: Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
Subject: <saba> ideal bicycle rules
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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