Bikes are Traffic
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e-rock at 06.27.08 - 10:19 am
Awesome article on Velo news about bikes vs traffic
one of the finer points:
Note that the law does not specify that “traffic” means “motor vehicle traffic,” as Sgt. Weber is implying it means when he says that “bicycles are not traffic.” The law merely says that cyclists who are riding at less than the normal speed of traffic must ride to the right. As a practical matter, traffic that is moving at a faster speed than bicycles is probably going to be motor vehicle traffic.
Nevertheless, under Wisconsin law, traffic clearly includes bicycles. And as an interesting aside, when the only “traffic” on a road is a club ride and a motor vehicle comes up behind the club ride, what is the “normal speed” of traffic; that of the club, or that of the lone motor vehicle? Clearly — well, perhaps not so clearly to those who harbor the mistaken view that “traffic” means “motor vehicle traffic” —“the normal speed of traffic” will be the prevailing speed at the time and place and under the conditions then existing, and that prevailing speed will be the speed of the club ride.
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