Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

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This raises a lot of questions in my mind. Can they actually ban it? One would think that as at its core even a large event, unless it involves closing of roads, is simply bicycles using the road, which doesn't require any special permits anywhere as far as I know. The county could choose to be extra strict about enforcing any laws that they have pertaining to bicycles, but I would expect that they could not outright ban bikes from the road on any day.

It also makes me wonder about the lawsuit, though that is a different matter all together. I think that if there was a dangerous condition caused by the county then it is perfectly reasonable that the county was sued (and in that case the acccident could have happened organized event or not, so there would be little reason to ban it). If the family simply sued the county because they had the best chance of getting money out of them...... but the article has far too little information to make a judgement about that.