Originally Posted by livedarklions

Good point.
Any selectively enforced regulation lends itself to pretextual stops. It's why Seattle did away with its helmet mandate.

Another point--did you know that sidewalk riding was illegal in GA before you googled it? Do people do it anyway? There's this sort of zen question that comes up frequently in the legal world--if there's a law that is universally ignored, is it really a law at all?

I think the bigger question is whether it matters whether it's legal or not. I do almost all my riding in 2 states, MA and NH. Sidewalk riding is legal in MA and illegal in NH, and I think I see more people riding on the sidewalks in the NH city live in than anywhere in MA, excluding campuses. MA has a few of those.