Why Enforce Bike laws

The Law Officer's Guide to Bicycle Safety

Welcome and Overview
Welcome to the Law Officer's Guide to Bicycle Safety. In 2002, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a grant to MassBike to develop a national program to educate police departments about laws relating to bicyclists. Initial seed money for the project was provided by the Charles River Wheelmen. The program is intended to be taught by law enforcement officers to law enforcement officers as a stand-alone resource. The major objective of the program is to give law enforcement officers of all backgrounds the tools they need to properly enforce the laws that affect bicyclists. The program focuses on all police officers, including those who may not be interested in bicycling or who are not able to attend in-depth trainings. The program will also be useful to police departments who wish to do outreach to the bicycle community or other organizations.

NHTSA is currently restructuring the program so that police can receive continuing education credit for completing it. The materials MassBike developed are available here for free downloading by interested citizens, officers, and advocacy groups.

For more info and to download these videos visit http://massbike.org/police/


For more information about MassBike and all that it does please visit http://massbike.org

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[loveingit]

More people should obey the laws of cycling when on a bike if so more people would respect cyclist and not want to run us over of course the motorist would need to know the cycling laws as well how sweet it would be if we could share the road!

[sdold]

I wish cops would enforce this stuff more. Idiots riding the wrong way in bike lanes are a pain in the ass.

[hellovedrana]

stupid cops

[samten10a]

What a bunch of shit. The bike operator had no ID no proof of who he is. He should have cuffed and jailed until he could prove who he is.

[KayBuena]

Yeah. That's right.

[roadmonitoroz]

Good to see their actually enforcing this. I agree it is for their safety (especially when cycling the wrong way up a street. )