Comments on: Arizona Bikes Safe Yield Act to get a hearing — possibly this Thursday

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:34 +0000

What happened to this? I was thinking that I hoped it passed as I ran a stop sign yesterday.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:43:01 +0000

I believe that power assistance is as good or better a solution to this problem.

Ideally only speed and perhaps actual acceleration (in ft./sec.) should be regulated, not ‘wattage’, or even any norm not adjusted to grade or total weight.

We don’t limit the strength of brakes after all. There isd no reason to limit how fast, or easally, a ultralight can get up to speed as for some of the same reasons faster breaking, faster starting, is safer.

NOT breaking sufficiently to save time, or not have to carry a battery/hub motor, is not safer. It is fetishistic, fundamentalist, and at best excused by poverty (too poor to spend a few hundred -total- at walmart) if at all.

The environmental impact of batteries and motors of this size, used for this amount of miles, is possibly even slighter then that of the marketing etc. involved in gels and muffins even.

I do however believe that adults should have the right to risk there lives even if rich enough to let a motor assume the burden of restarting. Perhaps a requirement that they have done so knowingly, carried on there person, in case they are injured, to excuse the other bike/driver, who collides with them, should be necessary to avoid being encouraged to stop…

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:45:12 +0000

The document you linked to on azleg says the hearing is canceled?

By: Sean Donovan

Sean Donovan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:32:24 +0000

Hello. I was a long time bicycle commuter and cyclist in Tucson. Riding the side streets, often you have a clear view of all directions when approaching a stop sign. On any bicycle, especially a loaded down one, it is a lot more effort to stop all the way, and get going, and it should be the cyclists call as a bicycle has more stopping power than a car, and in order to make it 10 miles accross the city on side streets, you have to break the code about 40 times and slowly ride through stop signs instead of stopping and PUTTING ONE FOOT DOWN at every single stop as the law requires. It would literally add 30 minutes or more to a person’s ride, and it is already exhausting enough to ride in Tucson’s heat. I was harassed by an officer once for not putting a foot down even though I could prove that I can stop my wheels without putting a foot down. However, I think there should be a common sense approach to this, rather than a blanket ’same laws’ doctrine. Please use my words as you please as a statement in support or testimony on behalf of changing the current codes oppressive to practical cyclists.

Thanks

Sean Donovan

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