The Oregon Senate has passed, without dissent, a bill intended to help motorcyclists and bicyclists when they are stuck a traffic signals that refuse to detect them standing there. The House now has the bill, and it could do something to make it even more helpful before passing it too.
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Tags: bicycles, motorcycles, Oregon legislature, SB 533, trraffic signals
Tags: bicycles, motorcycles, Oregon legislature, SB 533, trraffic signals
Bike bills then and now
Keeping track of bicycle-related bills in the legislature put me in mind of Oregon’s pioneer in bike legislation. I’m talking, of course, of the late Donald L. Stathos, a Republican from Jacksonville who served in the House from 1969 through 1972.
Tags: Donald L. Stathos, HB 3255, Jacksonville, Medford, Oregon bike bills, Oregon legislature, SB 533