Originally Posted by DogBoy
My agenda is education. 99% of the people would get the endorsement because they want to ride around the neighborhood. The credible benefit would be that drivers understood (or at least knew at some point) what the rights of cycles are, and cyclists would be aware of their rights/responsibilities.
I suspect that 99.9% of the people who want to ride around the neighborhood would ignore any such licensing requirement; as would 100% of law enforcement officers unless they were running a profiling sting on cyclists who "don't belong" in this neighborhood.
Perhaps you are one in a hundred exception, but almost every time "education" and "bicycle licensing" are associated, it comes from the keyboard of someone who just happens to be promoting a propriatary cycling education program and is trying to stimulate demand for his product.