BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

Wow. Gotta love a wife-beating mayor who wins elections unanimously. Sounds like a great place to live.

I drove through this "town" a couple of years ago. It seemed nothing but Casinos from end to the other, along a road through a fairly narrow gorge.

So.. here is a question then.. lets say this happened in PA somewhere.. PA law says pedalcycles can be operated on roads.. can a local municipality enforce a contradicting law, especially if some of the roads affected are state or us roads?

They can try, but they won't get past the first court case.

wow...so...what are the odds of a town banning cars? Love to see the reaction to that.

A few years ago Sausalito (the town across the golden gate bridge from SF) collectively started bitching that they had too many cyclists and began proposing all sorts of crazy schemes to get rid of them. There are massive bike rental places in SF along the water. Thousands of people everyday would rent bikes, bike up the hill and across the golden gate, and down into Sausalito, where they catch a ferry ride back (with their bike).

All the little boutique owners and rich folks in Sausalito hated this, and made it known every chance they could in papers, the net, on TV, etc. They called the cyclists a "plague of locusts". I remember they were pushing for a $1 per bike tax (not sure how they would collect that). For a while they were going to get rid of all the bike racks in the whole town. They finally settled on sticking up these silly signs that said cyclists must ride single file in the bike lane, despite there being no law in CA that says anything of the sort. I've also heard some 3rd and 4th hand stories of residents of the town obstructing bike lanes with hazardous objects (glass, tacks, etc.) but take those stories with a grain of salt.

I'm sure if they could ban bikes, they would, but their sales and sales tax revenues would drop to nothing in the process.

post about the sausalito issue:

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/03/24/sausalito-installs-bicycle-signs-that-contradict-california-vehicle-code/

and this one with all the usual anti-cyclist comments:

http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=784