Georgia anti-bike bill (HB 689)

[brianW]

Bill introduced in the Georgia Legislature to have bicycles registered via the county tag office. Not good. Please call your representative. http://www.house.ga.gov/representatives/en-US/ … sList.aspx I know Evans is Rep. Ben Harbin (706.869.1953 or 404.656.3949)

summary: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to provide for registration and licensing of bicycles; to revise a definition; to provide for the acquisition of a license plate prior to the operation of a bicycle on streets with motor vehicle traffic; to provide for the design of license plates for bicycles; to provide for the option of a one-time bicycle registration fee in lieu of annual registration; to prescribe fees for annual and one-time registration of bicycles; to provide for requirements for the operation of bicycles upon a roadway; to authorize the establishment of rules and regulations; to provide for enforcement; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."

http://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/en-US/disp … 014/HB/689

http://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1n508 … ire_bikes/

http://www.bikeleague.org/content/help-beat-ba … cling-bill

Read more: http://sorbacsra.proboards.com/thread/3 … z2h1zjXwQQ

[Greg Heil ✓ supporter]

This is so stupid. What about those people who own a whole person fleet of mountain bikes? There’s no way I’d pay annual registration fees for those, and no way I’d put a license plate (or something similar) on my mountain bikes!

[swerverider]

Wow. Just wow.

I see on http://www.georgiabikes.org, they say –

We won a three foot passing bill in 2011
We defeated a single-file riding bill in 2012
We won a statewide Complete Streets policy

Hopefully HB689 will be defeated as well…

[Dustin Gaddis]

Yeah there’s no way this is going anywhere.

[klowe8828]

Got a DUI? Bound to scooter? No tag needed! Recreating and exercising, yeah, you’re going to need a tag for that. I echo DGaddis-not going anywhere. Just spinning their wheels (HA!) and wasting time and money.

[gar29]

Just another attempt to grab our money and keep the politicians fat and happy. I hope this gets defeated!

[Greg Heil ✓ supporter]

Update: there was a public hearing held last night, and by all reports the supporters of the bill have withdrawn it due to the public outcry. So yeah, like dgaddis predicted, it didn’t get very far 😉

[musikron]

I called my Rep as a local business owner and voiced my concerns.

[Jim Hodgson]

This bill keeps popping up all over the country. I love it because it’s so ridiculous. Pretty much every cyclist in the US owns a car for which they pay all applicable taxes. Somehow these bill composers think everyone who rides a bike never gets in a car.

It is the dumbest of the dumb.

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