Hello JOE!

** On Wednesday 06.01.21 - 05:56, JOE MACKEY wrote to RON LAUZON:

 JM>   Many years ago I was coming home from work, stopping at
 JM>   red lights, etc.   At my corner I was pulled over by a old
 JM>   city cop.  This guy must of been one of the first officers
 JM>   the city hired 150 years ago.

 JM>   He said that bikes were to be stopped at red lights,
 JM>   WALKED through intersections, and then ridden onto the
 JM>   next corner. I told him that was the dumbest thing I had
 JM>   ever heard.  And I checked on this (long before the
 JM>   internet) and could find no such ordinance or state law.



I remember that part. That's the way it actually was  
communicated. But when motor-assisted ebikes came onto the scene  
and more and more people were using motorrized wheel chairs, the  
"get off the transport device and WALK across an intersection"  
was not enforced so much - and ultimately removed - I think.  I  
don't see anyone get off their bikes or miraculously rise from  
their wheel chairs to cross an intersection.


 JM>    A funny thing did happen. He asked where I lived and he
 JM>    had pulled me over literally right in front of my
 JM>    apartment.  I pointed across the street and said "there".
 JM>    Don't get smart with me boy, he growled, and asked to see
 JM>    my license. He then looked it, across the street and back
 JM>    to the license, gave me a dirty look and handed it back
 JM>    to me.  :)

I don't understand.. WHY did he stop you?  What did you do wrong  
in his eyes?  Is it because you rode across an intersection  
instead of walk?  If the latter.. did he not charge you?


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