Ticketing cyclists? "Protect and serve" my eye!

Ron and Dorothy Strasser

2007-07-07

4way... back when I took my drivers test (the manual was cut into a large
stone in the town square as this was before the printing press) the rule for
a 4way stop was the first vehicle at the intersection had the right of way
and if in doubt... yeild to the one on the right.
John Prine did a song about that... "the yeild went around and around and
around till pamelia finally tried.. that is when the man in the light blue
sedan hit pamelia's passenger side..." or some such thing.
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Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Ticketing cyclists? "Protect and serve" my eye!

> What's the rule on a four-way yield?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Brian Johnson
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:04 PM
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> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Ticketing cyclists? "Protect and serve" my eye!
>
> This is such BS:
>
> "Part of a group I was riding with yesterday was ticketed $335 apiece
> for rolling though the stop signs at the intersection of North Plains Rd
> and Glencoe. The officer indicated that the north plains PD has stepped
> up ticketing cyclists in the area since the rider was killed a few weeks
> ago. Beware."
>
> Stops signs need to be YIELD signs in Oregon. And the police need to
> invest their time in actually protecting and SERVING the citizenry, not
> harassing them. Honestly, these days I trust a police officer about as
> far as I could throw my futon. (Which is really quite heavy.)
>
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Q-"What's the rule on a four-way yield?"A-common sensemuch like the many stop sign-less intersections of residential portland proper.
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Craig Austin

2007-07-06

What's the rule on a four-way yield?

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Johnson
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:04 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Ticketing cyclists? "Protect and serve" my eye!

This is such BS:

"Part of a group I was riding with yesterday was ticketed $335 apiece
for rolling though the stop signs at the intersection of North Plains Rd
and Glencoe. The officer indicated that the north plains PD has stepped
up ticketing cyclists in the area since the rider was killed a few weeks
ago. Beware."

Stops signs need to be YIELD signs in Oregon. And the police need to
invest their time in actually protecting and SERVING the citizenry, not
harassing them. Honestly, these days I trust a police officer about as
far as I could throw my futon. (Which is really quite heavy.)

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Brian Johnson

2007-07-06

This is such BS:

"Part of a group I was riding with yesterday was ticketed $335 apiece for rolling though the stop signs at the intersection of North Plains Rd and Glencoe. The officer indicated that the north plains PD has stepped up ticketing cyclists in the area since the rider was killed a few weeks ago. Beware."

Stops signs need to be YIELD signs in Oregon. And the police need to invest their time in actually protecting and SERVING the citizenry, not harassing them. Honestly, these days I trust a police officer about as far as I could throw my futon. (Which is really quite heavy.)