How is this so complicated? Just like when a slower vehicle is in front of you, wait until there is no oncoming traffic and pass them.
Give credit to Shaun Jordan for exhibiting common sense (Some would argue that phrase is an oxymoron!) in assessing a new law.
That law is commonly called the "three feet rule", for the berth motorists have to give cyclists when passing them. This law was passed in Michigan, partly in response to the horrific crash that, two years ago, took the lives of Debbie Bradley, Melissa Fevig-Hughes, Tony Nelson, Larry Paulik and Suzanne Sippel near Kalamazoo.
(I must say that even though I've never been to Kalamazoo or knew the victims, and have written about them before, I still find it difficult to write about them!)
After that crash, politicians as well as everyday citizens spoke of the need to make the state's roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians. But the backlash against the new law is widespread, as it always is when motorists "lose" their "rights." As one Debbie Brown Donaldson whined, "This is sooo stupid! We need to slow down to practically nothing for a NON-motorized vehicle that isn't registered or licensed. Who the (fill in the blank) makes these rules?"
Well, Ms. Donaldson, what if that "NON-motorized vehicle that isn't registered or licensed" were a horse? Or what about any other animal--or pedestrian? Would it trouble you to slow down for them? Or would you run them over?
At least other commenters had more sense--and less of a sense of entitlement--than Ms. Donaldson. "Everybody that is up in arms about three feet. Honestly?" wondered another.
Give credit to Shaun Jordan for exhibiting common sense (Some would argue that phrase is an oxymoron!) in assessing a new law.
That law is commonly called the "three feet rule", for the berth motorists have to give cyclists when passing them. This law was passed in Michigan, partly in response to the horrific crash that, two years ago, took the lives of Debbie Bradley, Melissa Fevig-Hughes, Tony Nelson, Larry Paulik and Suzanne Sippel near Kalamazoo.
(I must say that even though I've never been to Kalamazoo or knew the victims, and have written about them before, I still find it difficult to write about them!)
After that crash, politicians as well as everyday citizens spoke of the need to make the state's roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians. But the backlash against the new law is widespread, as it always is when motorists "lose" their "rights." As one Debbie Brown Donaldson whined, "This is sooo stupid! We need to slow down to practically nothing for a NON-motorized vehicle that isn't registered or licensed. Who the (fill in the blank) makes these rules?"
Well, Ms. Donaldson, what if that "NON-motorized vehicle that isn't registered or licensed" were a horse? Or what about any other animal--or pedestrian? Would it trouble you to slow down for them? Or would you run them over?
At least other commenters had more sense--and less of a sense of entitlement--than Ms. Donaldson. "Everybody that is up in arms about three feet. Honestly?" wondered another.
