If the entire road is blocked and you are forced to go around, get off your saddle and walk your bike until your way is clear to ride again. If you are rolling to a stop as you arrive at your destination, get off your bike at the curb, not on it. To do otherwise potentially makes one as selfish or ignorant as any motorist or pedestrian who fails to be aware of the traffic around them.

There are grey areas, of course, and ticketing cyclists indiscriminately in every situation can be unfair when so much other illegal and/or dangerous traffic behavior goes unpunished. A warning should suffice to a cyclist riding on an completely empty sidewalk, or who quickly dismounted after rolling up on one. I also think that cyclists should be allowed to treat red lights as stop or yield signs when crossing a completely clear intersection. However, because cyclists so easily and quickly demonized and so many are unfortunately deserving of negative scrutiny, I believe the rest of us should do our best to follow the laws of the road and set a good example.

Let’s distinguish ourselves from jerks who dangerously flout rules and hopefully encourage tolerance (and perhaps, positive changes to traffic laws) for what I hope is the majority of cyclists who try to ride carefully with consideration for others.

I totally admit and accept that I broke a law by riding my bike on the sidewalk, but what purpose does it serve to have me actually appear in court? If I had been in a car and speeding, wouldn’t I have been just able to pay the ticket over the phone or via mail?

You see, not only is it permissible to ride the sidewalk in Phoenix, sometimes it is the LAW: Sidewalk Salmoning: It’s the Law.

The second time I was going down Sands St. in Downtown Brooklyn. Ironically, there was construction for the bike lanes that were installed there and the road was all torn up. I saw a bunch of bikers on the corner of Sands and Navy and I was appalled to see a van full of cops issuing summons to them. There was no way they could ride in the road, so naturally when they came off of the bridge, they hopped up onto the walk.

Citing bikes riding on the sidewalk is a waste of resources in my opinion. Sure, in the city where there is high foot traffic, ticketing is acceptable to me. However, when you have obstacles in the road like firetrucks or squad cars, a cyclist sometimes has to hop on the walk.

This is a message,in my opinion on how so called elected officials really feel about alternative transportaion.Seriously they are all the same.

Conform or pay,and, shut up.

Want to better yourself with alternative transportation little human hmm? “Great,then pay up,shut up and obey to the laws we make for you!”