{"id":306534539,"date":"2014-09-18T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=306534539"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:28:59","slug":"please-help-this-could-happen-here-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=306534539","title":{"rendered":"Please help, this could happen here next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The story:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2014\/09\/17\/3433672\/woman-charged-again-after-she.html\">Woman charged again after she rides her bicycle on busy U.S. 27<\/a> (and note the picture of her biking, the gravel is clearly seen.)<\/p>\n<p><b>The appeal for money:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/8uvfkw\">Appeal fund by Cherokee Schill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> To date she has not received any help from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB), which I find ironic in that they helped get rid of our mandatory shoulder use law. I sort of understand the reluctance in the past not to represent anything less then &#8220;the ideal&#8221; case. But is that the case here? What cyclist would support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not ever sweeping a shoulder along a route we use frequently<\/li>\n<li>Rumple Strips along a section of road were we are expected to jump on and off the shoulder?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will strongly assert it is the state that is guilty of &#8220;wanton endangerment&#8221;. So please help her and maybe an encouraging note to LAB to stand up for our rights.<\/p>\n<p><b>It could happen here:<\/b> I don&#8217;t go to the Towson Bike Party much because I don&#8217;t like biking Charles. Not that I think any part is unsafe but (for one example) it is the consent bugging me do I use the too narrow three foot shoulder or take the lane? Neither feels exactly right because of the other so I just don&#8217;t bike there often, but what if I had too? At one point yesterday when using this shoulder I had to come to a near full stop because of some piss poor road patch in the shoulder. If i was taking this every day, you are darn straight I would be taking the lane early to avoid that spot. And if there was a rumble strip preventing my return to the shoulder.., I hope you see my point, a reasonable cyclists is not always on the shoulder, nor is it the law.<\/p>\n<p>And as you may have heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20140915130228476\">I have been fighting the issue of bikes as slow moving vehicles must ride right.<\/a> But still there is a position in MDOT that is very similar to the judges in this case<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nDistrict Judge Bill Oliver found that Schill had violated &#8230; three counts of a law requiring slow-moving vehicles to move as far to the right &#8220;as practicable.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is disturbing because Kentucky is clearer than Maryland that bikes are not considered &#8220;slow-moving&#8221; vehicles and like us bikes are not required to use shoulders<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n189.810 Definitions.<br \/>\n(1) &#8220;Slow-moving vehicle&#8221; includes farm machinery, including animal-drawn<br \/>\nvehicles, highway construction and maintenance vehicles, and any other type<br \/>\nof vehicle <b>except bicycles<\/b>, capable of a rate of speed no greater than<br \/>\ntwenty-five (25) miles per hour.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<b>So please help in anyway you can. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story: Woman charged again after she rides her bicycle on busy U.S. 27 (and note the picture of her biking, the gravel is clearly seen.) The appeal for money: Appeal fund by Cherokee Schill Note: To date she has not received any help from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB), which I find ironic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=306534539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please help, this could happen here next&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306534539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306534539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306534539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306534539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306534539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306534539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306534539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}