Success in Utah!

We did it! It is now the law in Utah that drivers have to give
cyclists three feet of clearance "where conditions permit." It ain't
perfect, but in this state, anything is better than nothing.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2614573


(Link is likely to work only through about 26 March.)

Bill

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| Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, |
| has no invention; it is all memory. |
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wrote:
We did it! It is now the law in Utah that drivers have to give
cyclists three feet of clearance "where conditions permit." It ain't
perfect, but in this state, anything is better than nothing.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2614573


(Link is likely to work only through about 26 March.)

Bill

Given that Utah is the most White, Right, republican state I can think
of that is a good thing. I have some friends who moved there from
California for what should be obvious reasons.
Happy, safer, riding to you.
Bill Baka

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| Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, |
| has no invention; it is all memory. |
| --Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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wrote:
We did it! It is now the law in Utah that drivers have to give
cyclists three feet of clearance "where conditions permit." It ain't

perfect, but in this state, anything is better than nothing.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2614573

I like it! Although it may be difficult to enforce, it sends a clear
message. Here in MA, I've yelled "3 feet!" to motorists who passed to
close, claiming (to those who asked) it's the law -- although it's not
-- but it should be!

bbaka wrote:
wrote:

We did it! It is now the law in Utah that drivers have to give
cyclists three feet of clearance "where conditions permit." It ain't
perfect, but in this state, anything is better than nothing.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2614573


(Link is likely to work only through about 26 March.)

Bill


Given that Utah is the most White, Right, republican state I can think
of that is a good thing. I have some friends who moved there from
California for what should be obvious reasons.
Happy, safer, riding to you.
Bill Baka


I'm surprised it was a problem. If I see a young clean cut young guy on
a bike wearing a suit and tie, I can be 99% certain that he's a Mormon
missionary, and I see them right here in non-republican, alternative
lifestyle Palo Alto. Surely they'll also be giving them a break (brake?)
in Utah.

Mike

"Mike McGuire" wrote in message
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I'm surprised it was a problem. If I see a young clean cut young guy on
a bike wearing a suit and tie, I can be 99% certain that he's a Mormon
missionary, and I see them right here in non-republican, alternative
lifestyle Palo Alto. Surely they'll also be giving them a break (brake?)
in Utah.

It's an interesting thought -- since so many Mormon men have had the
experience of many months riding around on a bicycle as young men, as
motorists, are they more likely to give bicycles greater consideration?

Here, too often they are wrong-way or on-the-sidewalk cyclists, but even so.


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