| Re: Sierra Club -- cycling is scary
Bill Baka Wrote:
> 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 ba
> tha
> >>California never opened up to bicyclists or travelers. All freeway
> ar
> >>forbidden to bicycle
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> > [...
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> >>that somehow got a badge and a motorcycle. I wish California woul
> ope
> >>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.ht
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> > Dennis Ferguso
>
> Dennis
> I went to the posted sight and it is just legal bull****. My rides ar
> rural and the one highway/freeway I ride on occasion says ver
> specifically when the road is turning into a freeway, limited acces
> an
> get your bicycle butt off the road. I can send pictures of some rura
> freeways with these signs in the picture. If you live in a differen
> California than I do please send me pictures of yours. Ever since th
> 60s when I got a ticket for "Pedestrian on freeway", walking to ge
> ga
> for my car it had been illegal to be on a freeway with anything tha
> won't go an absolute minimum of 40 MPH. I did that with a car once an
> was told that I should be going at least 50-55 MPH because I wa
> slowin
> 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 are
> where it even hints a non-powered vehicles being allowed
> Bill Baka
I dunno about CA but over here in PA and NJ the few real big roads
like the turnpikes and interstates are restricted access. But there i
a loophold in which you can get an authorized permit from DMV to go o
these roads if you meet certain criterium and have a true need to d
so
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Conniebiker
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