Tennessee Law

[SouthernBelle]

There is pending a bill in the TN legislature to put into effect the "give 3 feet when passing" rule.

In today's Nashville Tennessean there is an article and a poll. I'm not above stuffing the ballot box here. So would everybody please go vote yes:

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....WS09/703300403

Nice article too BTW and no registration required.

[IFjane]

I voted! It is a good article & hopefully the publicity will have a positive rather than a negative effect. Doesn't hurt that the cyclists pictured are from a church!

[SouthernBelle]

Fortunately it's in a paper that most, if not all, legislators read. So hopefully it will have a big effect.

[Thorn]

I helped and voted for you...up here we have a 3' rule. Many drivers adhere to it, some will even give you 6'. On rare occasions we get the violators, but I've yet to find some place where the jerks don't live <sigh />.

Riding in Texas we were buzzed much more often. I don't know if they a 3' law or if it is just the culture (we were in ranch country where pickups and guns rule). At some of their passing distances, all it would take was a tiny gust of wind and I'd have been history. <shudder />

Good luck getting this passed (and then enforced)!

[roguedog]

Hey.. voted.

Maybe it'll start a precedent for other states to follow.

[PscyclePath]

Arkansas just got this signed into law yesterday afternoon, as Act 681 of 2007. Oklahoma has had it since last summer. Hopefully it's a good trend.