> It get a bit confusing because of California's designation of
> types of bike facilities into Class I, II, III, and IV. Just
> a bit of "We have to be different because we are California."
=v= Well, every state "has to be different" because that keeps
a legislative body employed to rewrite state sovereign laws. :^)
This can be maddening when trying to figure out traffic laws for
a specific state, even though there's some attempt to keep them
uniform across the country. Edge cases galore, all boiling down
to a politician's gift for legalese -- or a lobbyist's gift.
> The California bicycle association was instrumental in pushing
> legislation working in concert with industry. What resulted
> is AB1096:
=v= I don't know of a group called the "California bicycle
association." I do know that industry lobbyists gave lots of
money to every bicycle advocacy organization in sight, and their
goal was to get electric bikes defined as the exact same thing
as bicycles, in an attempt to bypass existing categories of
motorized devices.
=v= AB1096 fell short, but it all boils down to is electric
bikes going a certain speed being permitted in facilities that
were designed for 5mph less, which is pretty stupid. And, of
course, everyone's pretending that the bikes won't go faster
than that speed, which in reality has never, ever been true.
<_Jym_>
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