Comments on: 09/20/2012 – The Constituent

By: Jonathan Krall

Jonathan Krall — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:06:41 +0000

Only affect 10 people!?! Yehuda and his pals should have headed this off already by actually counting cyclists. The methodology of the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation project (national=USA) is very useful in this regard. We did this in Alexandria, VA and have been clubbing people over the head with “a million people per year on the Mt Vernon Trail” ever since. A year after we started, even the Mayor quotes our numbers.

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:55:48 +0000

this story arc has got me, the next panel can’t come fast enough.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:09:50 +0000

Welcome to Australia – we already have mandatory helmet laws!

By: cyclingbuddy

cyclingbuddy — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:33:21 +0000

I think what Yehuda should do is argue since bikes can only ride on streets where safe, offer the numbers of car on bike incidents and suggest cars only be allowed on all roads during peak hours.

By: Widsith

Widsith — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:14:51 +0000

Actually, where I grew up (Portsmouth, Virginia) they’ve had mandatory bicycle registration since at least sometime in the 1960s. You went down to City Hall and gave them your bike’s serial number and a dollar or two, and they gave you a decal with a registration number you put on the seat tube of the bike. Supposedly it was an anti-theft measure; if the police recovered a stolen bike they would check the serial number against the registration records and notify the owner. (I never heard of anyone getting their bike back that way, but that was the theory.) The registration was a one-time thing and did not have to be renewed. I just checked online and they still have it; they call it a “bicycle license” and the fee is collected by the City Treasurer’s office.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:07:33 +0000

Never confuse laws – or “morality” – with Ethics. They seldom intersect.

By: MLC40

MLC40 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:34:52 +0000

Or at least wearing his rain cape.

By: BHNelson

BHNelson — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:28:43 +0000

LIKE.

By: Hi!

Hi! — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:11:03 +0000

shouldn’t our hero be caped as he rides out into the night?

By: Tencon

Tencon — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:10:53 +0000

Well said Yolanda