BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

Edit: sorry this is NYC law

(p) Bicycles.

(1) Bicycle riders to use bicycle lanes. Whenever a usable path or lane for bicycles

has been provided, bicycle riders shall use such path or lane only except under any of

the following situations:

(i) When preparing for a turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.

(ii) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including but not limited to,

fixed or moving objects, motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, pushcarts,

animals, surface hazards) that make it unsafe to continue within such bicycle

path or lane.

that's new york state law, yes? i believe nyc is exempt from that somehow?

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Is that the law here?

no it is not the law here

To put this in perspective, NYC supposedly tickets far more bicyclists than they do truck drivers.

Of course, maybe NYC truck drivers are far more law-abiding and safe than the ones here.

Right.

It sounds also like they might be opening themselves up to a court case - possibly federal - when the ticketing runs astray of due process.

With getting ticketed for crashing into a crosswalk after being forced there by (presumably scoff-law) motorists, it could conceivably reach the constitutional trigger level of "cruel and unusual". Community service isn't cruel, fo course, but "unusual" fits the bill. (Although we only heard one side of that particular story.)

Is it possible NYC tickets far more cyclists than truck drivers simply because they have far more cyclists than truck drivers? Comparing raw numbers of tickets doesn't seem like the best measure for evaluating fairness.

Between stop and frisking minorities and hassling cyclists, I don't know how the NYPD even has time for surveilling Mosques

I would be more cool with this if their was a similar treatment for motorists. But I'm betting more often than not, the problem isn't based on a lack of knowledge.

People don't speed because they don't know they're breaking the law, they do it because they're in a hurry

> People don't speed because they don't know they're breaking the law, they do it because they're in a hurry

Or even just because they can.