Recent Streetsblog LA posts about California Highway Patrol

If You Want to Know a Bicycle Law, Don’t Ask the California Highway Patrol (Part II)

By Damien Newton | Jan 12, 2010 | 68 Comments

If you hit these scofflaws with your car, it’s ok. Photo:CJC4454/Flickr Another Southern California newspaper has made the mistake of asking a member of the California Highway Patrol about a law regarding cycling. And as we’ve seen in the past, that means that misinformation has been published, unchallenged, in a local newspaper. Today’s victim is […]

Is It Time for California to Adopt the “3-Feet-Law?”

By Damien Newton | Aug 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Image: 3FeetPlease.com More and more states are adopting laws that protect cyclists from passing cars by requiring that cyclists receive a three foot buffer on their left before any vehicle can pass them. According to a recent USA Today article, fourteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted the three-foot-law and it has already […]