At 10:49 AM 11/07/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip] He countered that he, too, was a bicyclist, and said the law
requires that bicyclists "not impede" the flow of traffic - that
bicyclists are required to ride as close as possible to the right side of
the street when they are moving slower than the flow of MV traffic, and
that I was needlessly impeding the flow of traffic. What else should I
have told him?
that the law regarding bicyclists says:
Riding 2 abreast is permitted on any street as long as other traffic is not
impeded.
The law says nothing about a single cyclist impeding traffic.
therefore, regardless of how you (or he) interprets "impeding traffic," the
notion is irrelevant in the situation you describe.
I don't have the time now to (re)read them in depth, but the state statutes
can be found on the BFW pages here:
http://www.bfw.org/projects/bicycle_laws.php
(and also through the "FAQs" link on our home page, www.bfw.org)
Or, if you (or someone else), doesn't trust the BFW as the source, they can
feel free to wade through the state's own website, here:
http://folio.legis.state.wi.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=28447850&infobase=stats.nfo&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg
chuck
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