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  1. Cyclists should stay off the sidewalk, it’s in the ordinance.Walk your bike if you have to use the sidewalk, I am not moving out of your way. And if you hit me, you will be paying off my mortgage.

  2. The signs in the middle of Ocean Ave warning motorists of crosswalks makes it impossible to safely pass bicyclists. Can not move over to comply with the required 4 feet without taking out a sign.

  3. My interpretation of the MV laws is that bicyclists need to abide to the same laws as if they were driving a motor vehicle. They need to stop to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. Also a bicyclists seated or stopped and seated on a bicycle is still a bicyclist trying to cross at a crosswalk. No need for a motor vehicle to yield to that bicyclist. On the flip, a bicyclist walking a bicycle across a crosswalk is now a pedestrian. Vehicle must yield at that point. Someone out there with a more recent understanding of the laws please correct me.

  4. Yes Eugene, people on bikes must yield for pedestrians, same an an automobile would, but many on bikes do not do so.

  5. So how would kids on bikes who do not drive be educated about driving rules, and then, of course, enforcement could not happen because of probable lack of identification. Warnings? Good luck. Licenses for bicycles? Responsibility would still fall upon the vehicle driver in accidents with bicycles. Who has insurance, auto drivers, of course, who would end up paying. Who you gonna sue? Not some person on a bike who may not know the rules; also bicycle riders do not carry insurance for accidents. Whole matter sketchy, in my opinion. Education via media could be helpful. Bike lanes on Ocean Avenue and Main Street please. That’s a start.

  6. #1-you are absolutely on point! It’s so annoying when people on bicycles use the sidewalk. The police should enforce and ticket them if they see that

  7. #9 what? You think that a parents lack of responsibility to teach their children is connected to a movement that seeks to stop racism, sexism, and general discrimination?
    That may be the craziest thing ever written on this blog. And that’s saying something.

    Bad parents come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and political affiliations. They have been around since the dawn of parenting. They’ll be around till the end of time.

  8. #9 Hillary said “It takes a village to raise a child.” A village of misled wokies.

    #10 Where to send a ticket, addressed to whom? A kid who may have given a fake name?

    What about the pooper scooper ordinance? How many tickets have been given out for offenders? None, I’ll bet.

  9. I will instruct my child to stop riding their bike on the sidewalk only when the speed on 16th avenue is enforced. Until then, instructing them to ride in the street would be bad parenting.
    It would be interesting to see a ticket being handed to my child for riding on the sidewalk with cars whizzing past in excess of the posted 25 mph. speed limit.

  10. Bike on sidewalks or poop on sidewalks. My point addresses enforcement. Adult bike riders should know better, dogs – eh – the owners should obey the rules as well. Parents are responsible for their kids up to eighteen maybe. Scofflaws will be scofflaws. I don’t want to necessarily challenge someone’s freedom to break the law. Cleaning my shoes or paying my medical expenses? That is getting a bit personal. Laws should be respected because they are there for a purpose for the common good, supposedly. I won’t even get into wokeism (on the surface reasonable and true) with its adjacent teaching of critical race theory. Be naive now and get smacked down later when awakened from the mass feel-good stupor.

  11. #15 this went from obeying traffic laws to critical race theory? I find it endlessly entertaining that the very people who rail against ‘media driven nonsense’ always wind up falling for ‘media driven nonsense’.
    You don’t even know what critical race theory is, yet it worries you. It’s actually kind of comical. Next week it will be some other crisis du jour cooked up by the minds of children trapped in grown bodies. Actually, that’s not fair to children. They’re more like parasites. Parasites who fill people with fear so they’ll keep watching and buy the products that advertise on their airwaves. I wish I could tell you that it’s something more profound. It’s not. And here you are, falling for it.

  12. Wow, I am really laughing that someone thinks he/she knows what I don’t know. Or doesn’t know what I know, more accurately. And, I will add, feels compelled to try to insult me. I am merely amused. C’est la vie.

  13. #ah French. I see you’re a fan of the Romance languages. That’s nice.
    At least I made you laugh. I based my opinion of what you know and don’t know based on the very words that you yourself typed. I apologize if you feel that’s insulting and I personally don’t see why that is amusing to you (I think it’s a little scary actually)but hey, a laugh is a laugh. I’ll take it.

  14. Adults riding e bikes on the sidewalks on Main Street.
    No regard for pedestrians walking on the sidewalks or in crosswalks. I am running out of nine lives! BPD enforce the law… !!!

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