Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Denver, CO — In a likely move to bolster the city’s bottom line, Denver Park Rangers are stepping up efforts to catch people speeding. No, they aren’t going after cars driving on the road, they are going after bicycles who are driving on the designated bicycle path.
Throughout parks in the city, the set speed limit for riding a bicycle is apparently 15 miles per hour. Rangers have setup speed traps around parks, using radar guns to clock people on bicycles who would dare cross that threshold.
“We try to suggest to people to get a speedometer, this way you know how fast you’re going. There are a lot of apps that you can download for free or you can go buy one, all tools to make sure you are recreating safely in the park,” says Denver Park Ranger, Jodie Ehrich.
For riding your bicycle faster than 15 mph, you will get a $100 ticket for the first offense. If you are caught “speeding” on your bicycle a second time, that will more than double to $250. It can also lead to cyclists getting banned from parks and more fines totaling over $500.
“Our Park Rangers and Trails Team are hosting pop-up safety and educational outreach events to remind trail users of proper etiquette and safety on trails,” said Cyndi Karvaski, a communications specialist with the department. “Our Rangers are monitoring speeds to bring awareness to these issues as well as the 180-day rule that allows electronic vehicles on Denver trails and park facilities.”
Apparently, this move to ticket cyclists expands outside of parks as well, as the Denver Municipal Code bars bicyclists from riding at “a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing or in excess of the posted speed limit.”
Colorado statute says, “every person riding a bicycle or electrical assisted bicycle shall have all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle.”
Naturally, this rule is receiving resistance to those paying attention.
“Speeds vary as one goes up or downhill and 15 mph is quite slow for a descent,” said Brian Weiss, a Denver lawyer who specializes in bike law, according to the Daily Sentinel. He added: “It should be noted that in parks the paths are more narrow than streets and most of the Denver parks are relatively flat.”
What’s more, Weiss notes that there has not been an increase in accidents or any other factor which sparked this crackdown on speeding bicycles.
“I am not aware of any particular incident or crash that caused the heightened speed reduction campaign or involvement,” Weiss said.
While we’ve seen cops go undercover as homeless people, construction workers, and even Disney characters in an effort to separate citizens from their money, we’ve never reported on the police state going after fast bicycle riders. This move is unprecedented in the arena of revenue collection.
Given the fact that there have been no accidents or injuries or anything to prompt this response by authorities to ticket citizens, we can only come to the conclusion that there is a gap in the budget somewhere that needs to be filled. Because the state cannot generate money on its own, it will turn to the tax cattle to fill those gaps. Peaceful bicycle riders be damned.
This is what communism looks like.
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DONT GO BIKE RIDING UNARMED YOU AMERICAN PUSSY!!!!!!
YO SCREAM ABOUT SECURITY AS YOUR RIGHTS ARE STRIPPED FROM YOU…AND YET YOU RUN AROUND UNARMED?
IDIOT!!!!!!
and anyone caught running faster than a 4 minute mile will get 30 days in the hole
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Listening to some old blues right now. That song might come up!
My bike didn’t come from the factory with a speedometer
So how about you take this handle bar and SHOVE IT Up Your ASS!!
And while your at it
Eat this bullshit ticket
Any cop that takes this job deserves to be found face down ass up with a 12 inch rubber dong shoved in his ….
I got pulled over in colorado. On a bike. Failure to completely stop at a stop sign and speeding. I was doing thirty five in a twenty five. And i never even slowed down for the stop sign. No ticket!
I was delivering weed to the vfw.
He said to slow down and stop at all stop signs. He also said a speeding ticket.would just.get.me.free drinks and high fives at the bar.
So i did 35 all the way to the bar and used a route with no stop signs.
“What’s more, Weiss notes that there has not been an increase in accidents or any other factor which sparked this crackdown on speeding bicycles.”
No, there’s a darker agenda afoot.
Here we come to the crux of the matter…
“For riding your bicycle faster than 15 mph, you will get a $100 ticket for the first offense. If you are caught “speeding” on your bicycle a second time, that will more than double to $250. It can also lead to cyclists getting banned from parks and more fines totaling over $500.”
As usual, when it comes to jews & their minions… IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MAMMON!!!
btw… the pigs better consider this – there are no license plates on bikes, so if they get smoked for pulling one over to ticket them, there’s a good chance they’ll GET AWAY WITH IT!!!
Think happy thoughts, Trenchers! 🙂
Leaves me thinking about helmet laws. Just saw a little boy and his dad as he’s learning to peddle a tricycle with a giant clunking helmet flopping his little head back and forth . The fine for ANYBODY operating a wheeled device without a helmet is , well I don’t know exactly, but there is a fine to be sure.
I will not ride a bicycle with a helmet on. Haven’t ridden one in 30 years, but that’s beside the point.
They have no right to my money for some con-cocted “law” they thunk up while drunk. They all drink like fish, and these lushes are enacting laws which affect each one of us no matter how “safe” they try to make us.
While seatbelts do save lives, the mammon collected from not wearing one and getting caught is substantial.
It ain’t about safety, ever.
The uncontrollable desire to accumulate & possess mammon is a serious mental defect of the jew.
The means by which they acquire it is of little or no consequence to them, being virtually conscienceless by nature.
So how long before we are required to have license plates on bicycles and to have them be registered to the DMV? It’s like having a fishing licenses in order to fish. WTF?!!
And I agree with ‘ol stewbum, that bike helmet law thing was the dumbest law on the planet and it soon became a stepping stone to chip away at more of our rights to ride a bike and then some.