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12-07-13, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by benjdm

You're not offering logic. You're offering assertions and ignorance.

Here's an example (2, really) of cycling on the shoulder not being in accordance with traffic law:

http://walkbikejersey.blogspot.com/2...riding-in.html

He wasn't cited for traveling on the shoulder. He was cited for "failure to exercise due care when passing a standing or slow-moving vehicle proceeding in the same direction."

And contrary to the blogger's assertion that cycling on the shoulder is illegal in New Jersey, cyclists on the shoulder simply "do not have special privileges."

And lets get to the "privileges" of cyclists in New Jersey.

Far more concern in Polzo v County of Essex, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that roads are for cars, trucks, and motorcycles, not bicycles. So a road hazard that is a hazard to bicycles, but not to cars, trucks or motorcycles, well, the commonwealth and its subdivisions is simply not liable. (Oddly, it seems that the only place the Commonwealth of New Jersey has responsibility to cyclists is designated bike lanes. Not even MUPs.)

-mr. bill