The major point of confusion and disagreement with my car-driving friends is the question of who has the right of way at intersections where a bike path crosses a city street. My car driving friends say I have a stop sign on the path, and therefore they have the right of way because I'm sitting at a stop sign. On city streets, this is obviously true. I stop, they drive by unimpeded, and I carry on after they've cleared the intersection. But, it looks like when a path crosses a street, my car driving friends should yield to me, after I've stopped for pedestrians on the sidewalk and moved into a position where I'm ready to enter the crosswalk (either marked or implied). This is a conversation I've had with many drivers and not one of them has agreed that I and other cyclists should be yielded to here, because of the stop signs on the path.
Good discussion. Thanks, Eric On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM, William Hauda <[email protected]> wrote: > Also called a hand cycle. State law was modified a few years ago via > legislation developed by Wisconsin Bike Fed to specifically include hand > powered cycles within the definition of a bicycle, which previously had > been limited to cycles powered by pedals. With the wars in Iraq and > Afghanistan, the number of cyclists with absent lower limbs increased > significantly. > > > On 7/11/2015 4:33 PM, Paul T. O'Leary wrote: > > On 2015/07/11 12:11, William Hauda wrote: > > Let me complicate the legal discussion. Does a track stand constitute > a stop? The bike's progress is stopped, but there's no foot on the ground. > One of the lawyers want to file a brief? > > Um, when a bicyclist with no feet operates on any public roadway, there's > never a foot on the ground. Any law that references a foot on the ground > would have to be itself in violation of the rights of a cyclist with a > disability. > > -- > Paul T. O'Leary > Chronic Nuisance > Madison, WI USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing > [email protected]http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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