Bill Sornson
California wrecks his rant in more ways than that since California also has bicycle licenses for which you pay a yearly fee (or bi-yearly, but some states (Florida?) also let you pay for 2 years of auto registration at once as well). I got mine in Davis, e.g.
and so I'm proud to be able to say that the usage fees for my bicycles are paid in full.
Since we've had several hundred posts here in which Mr. Yanik has indicated that the payment of a user fee is what gives one the right to use the road, then I'm sure he'll want to step up to the defense of my right to use road when riding my fully-paid-up bicycles.
So while I sympathize with Mr. Yanik's concern that cyclists pay their user fees to use the road, it isn't clear to me how Mr. Yanik would know whether the cyclist occupying the lane in front of him is a paid up user of the road or not. In fact, it is even possible that the cyclist is me. It seems to me that all he can do is to buttume the cyclists he comes across have a right to the road and leave it to local law enforcement to sort out who belongs there and who doesn't, just like it works for cars.
Dennis Ferguson
