Houston increases cycling safety by enforcing 3ft law
05-21-17, 08:14 AM
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Houston increases cycling safety by enforcing 3ft law
I'm happy our conservative city is working toward contemporary changes.
Hopefully this will trickle out into the surrounding areas like Katy, The Woodlands, Spring...etc.
Houston Police Enforce Bike Passing Ordinance | Houston Press
Hopefully this will trickle out into the surrounding areas like Katy, The Woodlands, Spring...etc.
Houston Police Enforce Bike Passing Ordinance | Houston Press
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It'll be interesting to see how else they get the word out about this. I'm glad they're starting to enforce it though.
05-22-17, 06:24 PM
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Typical, The law is only enforced AFTER a cyclist is killed.
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While I understand your perspective, I think it's more about the law being enforced after there was a way to catch those violating the law. Having a device that measures the distance from car to cyclists makes it an objective and enforceable violation as opposed to a subjective one as in "he looked closer than 3 ft." It's very sad and unfortunate that cyclists have died while they've been not enforcing the law, but I don't know how they would have enforced it previously without some way to tell the actual distance.
05-22-17, 10:33 PM
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While I understand your perspective, I think it's more about the law being enforced after there was a way to catch those violating the law. Having a device that measures the distance from car to cyclists makes it an objective and enforceable violation as opposed to a subjective one as in "he looked closer than 3 ft." It's very sad and unfortunate that cyclists have died while they've not been enforcing the law, but I don't know how they would have enforced it previously without some way to tell the actual distance.
Because, Some jurisdictions will put it at the bottom of their priorities.
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I'm not sure I understand your response. Isn't it already at the bottom of the priorities of many jurisdictions? So, the fact that Houston devised a way to enforce it and raise its priority is a positive. Prior to this, the only way to objectively know if someone broke the 3-feet rule was if there was an accident.
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While I understand your perspective, I think it's more about the law being enforced after there was a way to catch those violating the law. Having a device that measures the distance from car to cyclists makes it an objective and enforceable violation as opposed to a subjective one as in "he looked closer than 3 ft." It's very sad and unfortunate that cyclists have died while they've been not enforcing the law, but I don't know how they would have enforced it previously without some way to tell the actual distance.
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05-27-17, 10:37 AM
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I'm not sure I understand your response. Isn't it already at the bottom of the priorities of many jurisdictions? So, the fact that Houston devised a way to enforce it and raise its priority is a positive. Prior to this, the only way to objectively know if someone broke the 3-feet rule was if there was an accident.
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