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there are many different levels of biker and bike user. There ARE children who ride, and also adults who ride occasionally for mostly recreational reasons. Insurance reqs and bike licensing would be unduly burdensome for them (and would likely result in less recreational biking, and negative health outcomes). Maybe you could draw the line somewhere. I dont know how you prove who uses the bike as their principle means of transportation. You could say using it on the road, but what of someone who rides in the street on a suburban cul de sac in a place with no sidewalks - lots of kids and inexpert adults ride on streets in those circumstances. Youd have to define "road" to exclude such situations. And of course most incidents involving peds occur on trails or sidewalks I guess, not on roads.

all in all, I don't know that licensing or insurance reqs really address the problem - but they do serve as obstacles to growing cycling.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jun 7, 2012 12:56 pm • link • report

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