Town in Colorado bans cycling
mapryan
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Now there's a place that really needs a Critical Mass ride
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It's one of the drawbacks of the very localised system of democracy you get in most US States. Each little place has it's own very local laws, but they only apply in that little place, in this case barely a village, it's a few buildings on a junction. (don't be confused by the article calling it a city).
You always get some silly little laws passed in these places, a complete ban on the sale of alcohol, for example, where the residents have to drive all of a couple of miles to the next "city" boundary to find an off license or bar. You have 100 residents to convince. You could get almost anything passed couldn't you.
As the advocates say, it's probably illegal, there will be State or Federal laws that make banning cycling illegal but you need to challenge it in the courts before it can be repealed.
Chances are if it isn't illegal then the higher law would be changed to make it illegal.
The very local democracy they have does seem intriguing though.0 -
Copp said there were no accidents that prompted the ordinance, just concern over conflicts between motor vehicles and bicycles on streets built in the 1800s that were designed for horses and carriages.
Two bits of twisted thinking there. Nobody can remember any accidents yet they still pass the law. And if the roads were designed for horses and carriages in the 1800s then surely they're still suitable for cyclists, slower, narrower, etc. It's the motor vehicles that they weren't designed for.0 -
home of the brave, and the land of the free ??? my a*se0
