Quote Originally Posted by Thorn View Post
The issue here isn't whether you feel safe, the issue is whether a local government has the right to restrict one type of vehicular traffic on a public roadway where there are no minimum speeds.

If the roads are unsafe because the 55 mph speed limit doesn't give you time to stop when you come around a curve or crest a hill, then the speed limit is too high. There could be a slow moving tractor, a slow moving car, a deer, a dog, a person walking, a child. . . many things besides a bicycle. Prohibiting a bicycle does not solve the problem. If the road is unsafe. It is unsafe for everyone.
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If the road is unsafe then the speed limit should be lowered and that lowered speed limit should be enforced. Unless it is a limited access highway it is wrong to ban certain types of traffic from a road (and here in WA, even the highways are only no bike zones in urban areas - there are places that the highway is the only road around....) Public roads are just that - public, not the sole province of automobile drivers.