Arizona Bike Law Blog

There is an initiative floating around from some group called the “TIME Coalition”.

A shady backroom deal cooked up between Napolitano and the Arizona Home Builders is almost too much to bear. It seems the home builders have engineered a way to escape any extra taxation (impact fees) by helping out the governor with another of here proposals. More here: nototime.blogspot.com including an image of the leaked agreement

As a tactic to derail TIME’s proposition (should it make it to the ballot), no-new-taxes lawmakers are preparing their own legislative initiative. This would set up a situation where potentially there could be two similar but competing ballot propositions both dealing with “transportation”. Rep. Russell Pearce’s legislation would put a ballot proposition that would levy a 1/2 percent addition general state sales tax whose revenues would be used for building roads. This is meant to stick it in the eye of TIME’s proposition which spends some of its revenue on public transportation — but not very much, 78% is on roads and freeways and only around 20% is on public transit. Rival Transportation Plan Posed, Arizona Republic, May 30, 2008.

Grist magazine article Oct 9, 2007. Safe Streets: not pedaling can kill you
Bicycling Magazine Jan/Feb 2008 issue: Broken by David Darlington, see link at entry Media Bias

Since bicyclists are granted all the rights and responsibilities as drivers of vehicles, are cyclists required to have a driver’s licence? No. §28-3151. sets forth the conditions requiring a license: “a person shall not drive a motor vehicle … on a highway without a valid driver license”. Bicycles are not motor vehicles, they are not even vehicles under Arizona law, see §28-101 — therefore no license is required.

This is the blog for the website azbikelaw.org, a resource for Arizona cyclists or anyone interested in transportation law.