Here's an idea. Bicycles are now mopeds, only you can get some sort of bike permit if you are under 16.
Yep. It goes a bit further even than that tho. For example, here you have to affix a license plate to and pay to register one of these before you can use it on the road:I think this is for the best. If you want to ride on the road, you gotta be subjected to more or less the same shit drivers and moto riders do, including licensing (which this bill doesn't seem to require). It's really not fair that someone gets to use the same facilities just because they bought a different vehicle.
Bills would require license plate for all [bicycles], annual registration
Bikes have their own lanes and are considered traffic, that's why people want them to face some of the same rules as all other traffic.I can't wait until they do the same to rollerblades, skateboards, Razor scooters, tricycles, Power Wheels, Fisher-Price Cozy Coupes, riding lawnmowers, Segways, a pair of Nike Air Max Lebron 8" South Beach sneakers, and - in my case - your mom.
Believe me, they are worried about safety a lot more than you are in your 3000lbs metal shell.That is fine but - bikes should stay off the road unless they obey all the safty rules everyone else has to.
Why does that bother you? They use their own judgement and if they are right, they get ahead of you for a whole 15 seconds before your light turns green and you speed by them; if they are wrong, its once again not your problem.pushy cyclists going through red lights
Then a) call the cops, b) get out and kick their ass, c) ignore them, or d) just suck it up and move on with your day.kicking your car, spitting on you car and shouting at you and making rude jestures.
God damn, I've been wanting this here [Australia] for years.
I believe riding on the sidewalk is permitted here which in the end would probably be safer for the kids to ride on anyway.
Believe me, they are worried about safety a lot more than you are in your 3000lbs metal shell.
Why does that bother you? They use their own judgement and if they are right, they get ahead of you for a whole 15 seconds before your light turns green and you speed by them; if they are wrong, its once again not your problem.
Then a) call the cops, b) get out and kick their ass, c) ignore them, or d) just suck it up and move on with your day.
I've lived in Amherst for over four years where everyone and their mother rides a bike and I've never had any issues. I've driven through a Boston neighborhood where everyone and their mother has a bike and also never had any issues. Any incidents that you can pull off of youtube to show me that bikers are oh, so horrible, are isolated occurrences. If we go by those then we should get the following groups off the road because they annoy me far more than bikers do: women, Asians, the elderly, commercial vehicle drivers, hybrid drivers - all of them stereotypically drive below the speed limit and piss me off far more than some kid on a bicycle.
Making the lycra patrol responsible and all is good, but how would this affect the kid who just wants to take his bike out to the park?
AFAIK there is a special tax that bike makers pay for that right now, not sure how it works as far as who decides where the money goes though.Remember also that that fee (theoretically) includes the bicycle's share of the upkeep on the traffic controls, lane markers, and other road features that the rider makes use of, so yes, it can and should be more than an admin fee. Equal rights means equal treatment and equal responsibility. Don't want the last two, don't ask for the first one.
Not sure how your country works but I had to take a written test before I was given a learner's permit that allowed me to start learning how to operate a vehicle. I then had to take a 5 hour lecture before I would be allowed to take license test. I was free to learn how to operate a vehicle any way I wanted though. Same thing here, make them take the test so that the state is reasonably sure that they know the rules of the road simple really.Trained to operate a bike? You're joking right? You can prove you can operate a bike by RIDING it.
What you fail to take into account is the fact that there is very little enforcement that can be done to a vehicle that does not have any kind of registration. Passing them is all fine and good but what if one jumps out in front of you? How about them going through red lights and hitting pedestrians (happened to my dad unfortunately for the cyclist he is quite large and still has good reflexes ) How about them riding in a street in a way that safely passing them is impossible? I won't even go into the way they can antagonize cars if they so please.Guys... they are bicycles. You know, the two-wheeled things with pedals that kids ride around on. I can honestly say that I've never had an issue with a cyclist on the road. Want to know why? Because I'm in a car and I can just pass them. Its really not a big deal, idk why everyone has their panties in a bunch over bikers. Hybrid drivers tend to annoy me much more than cyclists because they are always going under the speed limit, so why don't we start charging them more for registration? This proposal is nothing but a clear indication that someone has sand up their va-jay-jay. That video that you posted, Spectre - were you really that annoyed by that guy and his little girl? You're in a damn car, just pass them and move on with your life. Its not like they sat in the road right in front of you for 20 minutes while you couldn't get around them.
Because if I do that I will get a ticket. Now its funny that you tell me you never had a problem with cyclists in Boston because I know a couple of people in Boston who happen to cycle and THEY say that a huge majority of Boston cyclists are assholes and were happy to see some get ticketed by the police.Why does that bother you? They use their own judgement and if they are right, they get ahead of you for a whole 15 seconds before your light turns green and you speed by them; if they are wrong, its once again not your problem.