Black Hawk Judge Affirms Bike Ban
12-04-10, 12:44 AM
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Critical bathroom breaks in the casinos.
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12-04-10, 10:53 AM
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What's really sad is that those super dangerous roads are all 15 mph speed limit, and there has NEVER been a recorded bike/car accident on any of them.
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12-05-10, 02:27 PM
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The casinos give away free alcoholic beverages, they want everyone to be drunk. The drunker they are, the more money they put down. The house always wins.
12-05-10, 07:00 PM
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The ordinance disallowed cycling on what I think are the main roads through town. The opinion states that the ordinance does not impede the constitutional right to travel because cyclists can walk their bikes through town. A bizarre and strained opinion. I trust it will be appealed.
12-05-10, 09:07 PM
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"As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, 98-97 (1999), the Constitution does not contain the word "travel" in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel (except for members of Congress, who are guaranteed the right to travel to and from Congress). The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), the Court noted, "It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized." In fact, in Shapiro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that "it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association, ... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all." It is interesting to note that the Articles of Confederation had an explicit right to travel; it is now thought that the right is so fundamental that the Framers may have thought it unnecessary to include it in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights."
The ninth amendment, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people," makes it clear that not all rights are included in the constitution. The right to travel has been determined to be one of them.
12-06-10, 11:02 AM
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I would love to see the comparable anti-car ordinance that requires motorists to walk their cars. My city is trying to force cyclists to walk their bikes to the (few) bike racks found downtown while still allowing the motorists to drive their cars across the same sidewalks to access car-only parking structures. I'll walk my bike when they walk their cars.
12-06-10, 11:26 PM
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Replace the signs with "AUTOS, PEDESTRIANS, AND BICYCLES MUST OBEY TRAFFIC LAWS". Then stand back and watch nothing happen.
Hypocrites.
12-10-10, 03:34 PM
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The problem you know is the fact that the judge is in the back pocket of the casios.
