Santa Rosa will be swarming with bicycles this weekend as the Amgen Tour of California rolls into town, so this reader question about bicycle safety arrived just in time. The question: In the "California's Rules of the Road" bicyclists are to follow the same rules of the road as motor [...]
Curtis Cook wrote to ask about the laws concerning bicycle riding through parking lots. Stores for the most part, have their bike racks near their entryways, which means crossing the parking lot to get to them. get a lot of flak from drivers and people walking to and from their [...]
Here's a question from a reader: I've been taught that bicycles are subject to the same rules as cars, but I see bicycles on the sidewalk all the time. I'd certainly be cited if I drove my pickup down the sidewalk. What's with the bikes? Thanks a lot. Randy of [...]
"Hating bikes," "Raging at cyclist," "Share the road" -- all headlines on recent letters to the editor about the continuing conflict between drivers and bicyclists in Sonoma County. "Cyclists have every right to share the road," and drivers need to realize that, CHP Officer Jon Sloat said. But bicyclists cannot [...]