Kahn to Bikers .. Just go ahead and blow passed that stop sign

Senator Jim Carlson and Representative Phyllis Kahn are proposing to legalize bicyclists ignoring traffic laws such as stopping at red lights and stop signs. Kahn is the propagator of such things as the smoking ban and allowing 12-year-old kids to vote has added this to her list of bad ideas. The proposal is based on a statute pasted in Idaho. According to the bicycle accident statistics Idaho bicycle accidents have increased at a higher rate than the national average since that statute passage. Is this something that we want here? I think not! How about enforcement of the current laws on the books and handout tickets to those bikers blowing passed stop signs and red lights as all of us have seen. Laws are laws! If Phyllis gets her way, the law will be not more and we most likely will experience higher accident rates. Maybe she really doesn’t care about that!