Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
We also have the most homeless here in CA and bikes are part of the profile.
...one of the more egregious aspects of the old "Bicycle Safety Month" enforcements here in Sacramento, was that some cops decided the easiest way to meet citation quotas, was to ticket homeless guys for riding outside the bike lanes. We have a network of ineffective and dangerous bike lanes within the city, thanks to the past efforts of SABA, who long equated miles of bike lanes striped off on city streets with progress. It's created quite a mess, and will take decades to alter into something like a more workable system. There are many bicycle lanes here that are dangerous to use. Yet for a period of time, the cops were writing tickets to cyclists not using them. Thankfully, I think most of that has stopped now.