Sidewalk riding now allowed in Alexandria
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Hi All,
Just in case you didn’t hear the news, the Alexandria City Council approved a long-awaited update to Alexandria bicycle ordinance. Alexandria, like the rest of Virginia, now allows sidewalk cycling unless disallowed. They also repealed the not-enforced registration requirement (and the 25 cent fee). The reason for the change was that, on occasion, the police would ticket sidewalk cycling, which is a necessary evil in the many bike-unfriendly areas of town. Also, on occasion, bike-haters would call for enforcement of the 25 cent fee. In other words, this change turns some legal issues that are otherwise non-issues into both legal and actual non-issues.
Unfortunately, some of the media coverage has implied that this would result in a change in sidewalk cycling.
Jonathan
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