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05-31-16 | 09:37 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by CB HI

Looks like Black Hawk is still breaking the law. There is no alternate "within 450 feet" of banned streets Selak and Black Hawk. Their alternate route only works for the Main Street bicycle ban.

Looks like Black Hawk government is just as anti-bicycle as they were before they got slapped down.

If you map it out, they are technically within the state law. The state law says that the distance must be within 450 feet of an alternative route. Selak is 475 feet long but as measured as the crow flies from Bobtail Road, it is 343 feet from Bobtail Road to the front of Sasquatch Casino on Selak. I'm sure they got out their tape measure to insure that they were within the law.

And I agree that they are just as antibicycle as before but now they have a fig leaf covering their shame. Personally, I still won't be riding there

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