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2. Bill to Allow Cyclists to Roll Through Stop Signs Fails

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Wed May 10, 2017, 10:49 AM

May 2017

Bill to Allow Cyclists to Roll Through Stop Signs Fails

By Eli Wirtschafter
MAY 9, 2017

A proposal to allow bikes to roll through intersections has come to a skidding stop — for now.

AB 1103 would have let bicyclists treat stop signs like yield signs. On Monday, the measure stalled in an Assembly committee.

An unlikely duo brought the legislation: San Francisco Democrat Phil Ting and Republican Jay Obernolte, whose district lies in the Mojave Desert.

They are united by a belief that bicyclists would be safer if the law allowed what so many cyclists already do — roll through stop signs.

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Should California allow bicyclists to roll through stop signs? [View all] TexasTowelie May 2017 OP

This column, or one like it, ran recently in my local paper and it was funny to see petronius May 2017 #1

Bill to Allow Cyclists to Roll Through Stop Signs Fails Brother Buzz May 2017 #2