| Re: Sierra Club -- cycling is scary
Dennis Ferguson wrote:
> Bill Baka <bbaka@syix.com> wrote:
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>>A strange thing just happened, I agree with you. It is just too bad that
>>California never opened up to bicyclists or travelers. All freeways are
>>forbidden to bicycles
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> [...]
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>>that somehow got a badge and a motorcycle. I wish California would open
>>up some of the freeways to bicycles but hell hasn't frozen over yet.
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> I'd say it is about 1/4 frozen already.
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> http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/paffairs/faq/faq67.htm
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> Dennis Ferguson
Dennis,
I went to the posted sight and it is just legal bull****. My rides are
rural and the one highway/freeway I ride on occasion says very
specifically when the road is turning into a freeway, limited access and
get your bicycle butt off the road. I can send pictures of some rural
freeways with these signs in the picture. If you live in a different
California than I do please send me pictures of yours. Ever since the
60s when I got a ticket for "Pedestrian on freeway", walking to get gas
for my car it had been illegal to be on a freeway with anything that
won't go an absolute minimum of 40 MPH. I did that with a car once and
was told that I should be going at least 50-55 MPH because I was slowing
down traffic on a 3 lane freeway. Show me the roads. I want proof,
because I have been all over this state and have never seen an area
where it even hints a non-powered vehicles being allowed.
Bill Baka
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