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Matthew
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:29 pm Reply with quote
rookie Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 1173 Location: Sur le nord-ouest des États-Unis, pret de la frontier Québécois

I realise a lot of you are so anti-squid, you'd be caught buying Car and Driver with the halfnaked girl sprawling across the muscle car before you'd buy VeloNews, but still:

"A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper went one step further, blaming all cyclists:

Chuck Allen, a trooper for the Nevada Highway Patrol, shared similar thoughts with Kelly. "Mostly you see bikes riding the wrong way, not stopping at stop signs - they fail to abide by laws motorists abide by," Allen said. "I think there might be a vision put there that cyclists feel exempt from traffic laws."

While cyclists should observe the law, this was not a case about a cyclist riding the wrong way, or failing to stop at a stop sign-it was a case about a driver violating a cyclist's right of way.

Of course, the media reported the police account."

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Interestingly enough, the author, a former racer, lifelong cyclist, bar-admitted cycling advocate, and now nationally published author, is doing a speaking tour to support his book. Could maybe someone from Seattle Likes Bikes or perhaps Cascade (somebody activate the David Hiller signal-searchlight) contact him to ask if he'd come to Seattle? He's looking for clubs and shops to do Q & A sessions and talk about his new book about traffic laws and cyclists. Sounds like it could be interesting. His address is bookbob2speak@gmail.com.
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Eric_s
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:31 am Reply with quote
Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1691 Location: the dirty south

interesting article. The more I read from a less hot headed perspective on police departments and cycling law, the angrier I get.

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