While on the subject of bikes vs. cars, here's a bit of news from today's Lansing (MI) State Journal. It's encouraging, in that the bike rider won the case, but discouraging that a STATE POLICE trooper didn't know the law about bicyclists' rights.
"An avid bicyclist fought — and won — a $200 ticket he received from a Michigan State Police trooper who accused him of impeding traffic during a Sunday morning ride. Initially, a Livingston County District Court judge ruled against Tim Panagis, who appealed to the Circuit Court. There, Chief Judge David Reader . . . dismissed the ticket, finding that Panagis complied with the law by riding as close to the edge way of the roadway as he could and finding that cyclists are permitted to ride two abreast as Panagis and his fellow bicyclists had done that day." [BTW: Michigan state law says that bicyclists may NOT ride "more than two abreast," which is an indirect way of saying that they MAY ride two abreast, which most of us wouldn't dream of doing except on deserted roads, which this one was. The dash cam photos clearly show an empty road, they show the bicyclists forming single file when the trooper came up behind them, and they show the bicyclist giving a courtesy wave to the trooper that it was safe to pass.] "Reader also noted that the roadway does not include the shoulder, and therefore, Panagis was not required to stay to the right of the white line as the trooper ordered. Reader also ruled the trooper had a duty to pass the cyclists at a safe distance, but did not do so, Gentilozzi said." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
