{"id":32428,"date":"2013-02-04T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/sharing-the-road.html"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:51:36","slug":"sharing-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/sharing-the-road.html","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state Supreme Court has ruled that a town cannot simply ban bicycles. \u00a0I understand the traffic safety concerns, but it strikes me that there are better ways to manage the traffic and traffic flow in general other than simply banning a necessary and useful mode of conveyance. (h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107133478000056389129\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"107133478000056389129\">David Newman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site36\/2013\/0204\/20130204__user_submitted_black_hawk_colorado_bicycle_ban~p1.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_22515210\/colorado-court-rules-bicycles-state-interest'>Colorado court rules against Black Hawk, saying bicycles are a state interest<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Colorado Supreme Court has overturned Black Hawk\u001bs ban on riding bicycles, ruling that bicycles are a matter of state and local concern.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/fUzM29sQudC' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state Supreme Court has ruled that a town cannot simply ban bicycles. \u00a0I understand the traffic safety concerns, but it strikes me that there are better ways to manage the traffic and traffic flow in general other than simply banning a necessary and useful mode of conveyance. (h\/t +David Newman\u00a0) Embedded Link Colorado court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/sharing-the-road.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharing the road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46057,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/ignoring-traffic-doesnt-mean-you-wont-get-run-over.html","url_meta":{"origin":32428,"position":0},"title":"Ignoring traffic doesn&#039;t mean you won&#039;t get run over","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Oct-14 8:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"In fact, ignoring traffic means you probably will.Which is my metaphor for the below. 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