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Back to School time for kids - Abington Mariner

... air quality. If supervision is needed for safe travel, consider establishing a walk/bike pool with neighbors ... In some cases a child who acts inappropriately may not be aware that he or she is offending in ...

Once Around the Park, Then Farewell - New York Times

... travel: in the imagination ... There’s a wacky open-air amphitheater where you can sit and watch a show, which usually turns out to be city traffic below. There’s a beautiful stained-glass window,

Going to the sun in Montana - Denver Post

the smell of the air, the panorama before you ... You can travel on your own wheels (bicycle, motorcycle, car or motor home that's less than 21 feet long) or you can pay to be a passenger in a red touring "Jammer."

Going to Mars? It'll be one wild trip - MSNBC Cosmiclog

You put the body in the air lock and expose it to the vacuum of space ... Could their brains make the jump from a wood and canvas bicycle chain driven "glider" to what they now saw before them? In only 100 years!!

A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW - The Keene Sentinel

I rode my bike, I swam, I played badminton with the next door neighbor ... Freddy and the Perilous Adventure,” Freddy the Pig commandeered a hot-air balloon and he and a few friends set off in it. I have wanted to ...

It’s time for a girlfriends’ getaway - Providence Journal

Walk and bicycle throughout the historic city filled with public gardens and squares or grab ... In any case, the coastal air is intoxicating and cool for a relaxing getaway. Contact: Visit www.Bordeaux-Tourisme.

Film project by Meghan Parkansky of WFRV Channel 5 will document Green Bay Packers fans' passion - Post-Crescent

The project is an unusual case of filmmaking for charity ... tailgating atmosphere and at training camp for footage of Packers players riding kids’ bicycles. “I’ve met some very interesting people, including ...

Africa Commerce, Conflict Coexist On The Congo - WBUR

A familiar sight in the city is its pedal bike taxis, with colorful crocheted seats ... There is an air of expectation as passengers mill around the port, waiting for confirmation that there is a barge on the move.

Film will document Green Bay Packers fans' passion - Green Bay Press-Gazette

Letter from Hanoi: Vietnam old, new and ever - GADLING

bicycle rickshaws and air of neglect. The French quarter is a city of lakes and ... his typewriter -- preserved like the great man himself in glass cases. Next door was the underground shelter where he took refuge ...

Resolved Question: Whether a bicyclist has a right to utilize the shoulder of the Interstate Freeway System.?

According to Colorado Statutes, bicycles may be prohibited on roadways if there is an alternate route within ¼ mile of the roadway. For safety purposes, CDOT has chosen to apply this statute to much of I-70 and I-25. The alternate routes can be other roadways or non-motorized paths. Here is the statute language: CRS 42-4-109 (11), it states: “Where suitable bike paths, horseback trails, or other trails have been established on the right-of-way or parallel to and within one-fourth mile of the right-of-way of heavily traveled streets and highways, the department of transportation may, subject to the provisions of section 43-2-135, CRS, by resolution or order entered in its minutes, and local authorities may, where suitable bike paths, horseback trails, or other trails have been established on the right-of-way or parallel to it within four hundred fifty feet of the right-of-way of heavily traveled streets, by ordinance, determine and designate, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, those heavily traveled streets and highways upon which shall be prohibited any bicycle, animal rider, animal-drawn conveyance, or other class or kind of non-motorized traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic, and, upon such a determination, the department of transportation or local authority shall erect appropriate official signs giving notice thereof; except that with respect to controlled access highways the provisions of section 42-4-101(3) shall apply.” Recently, I was riding my bicycle on the extreme right side of the freeway shoulder between Frisco and Copper Mountain. During at least six months of the year, the recreation path along Ten Mile Creek is closed due to deep snow cover and avalanche danger in Officers Gulch. The alternative state highway, without shoulder, is Highway 91 to Leadville, 25 miles over Freemont Pass, then Highway 24 to Fairplay, south on Highway 9 to Breckenridge, over Hoosier Pass, then 10 miles down the Blue River to Breckenridge. Therefore, the I-70 is the only reasonable means for me to commute from Copper Mountain to Frisco. During that evening, I was returning from work. A snowplow driver on his way to Vail Pass stopped on the shoulder at the 195 mile marker to block my progress and attempted to stop me. When I ignored his command to pull over, he yelled to me that I should not be on the freeway. Then, he blasted his air horn and shouted, “#### you!” I called his supervisor to discuss the issue. I told him that I have no alternative to commute for work other than traveling on the shoulder of the freeway. The supervisor informed me that a snowplow driver has authority from Colorado State Patrol to detain traffic. I provided him with my identity, telephone number, and location of work in case an officer wanted to write me a ticket. My question is whether there is any existing case law interpreting the Colorado Statute or other state statutes concerning bicycle or other slow-moving traffic on the shoulder of interstate freeways in the United States. The only reference that I have been able to find is United States v. Guest, Supreme Court of the United States (1966): “The constitutional right to travel from one State to another, and necessarily to use the highways and other instrumentalities of interstate commerce in doing so, occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union. It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.” -Kim Fenske, JDComments: Please only answer my question if you have intelligent answers based on actual life experiences with statutory or common law citations. As a careful reading of my detailed investigation already indicates, I have already done research on the Colorado Statutes and found that it is perfectly legal to operate a bicycle on the federal interstate highway system where there is no reasonable alternative pathway maintained within a quarter mile of the freeway. Furthermore, it is more dangerous to travel on our recreation path in avalanche chutes than on the shoulder of the freeway. More people die in avalanches in Colorado than die on freeway shoulders. Also, I pedal on the freeway shoulder at the same speed as any semi-truck fitted with chains during the winter. As a former CDOT snowplow driver, I know that a snowplow driver has no authority to stop and detain traffic except when directly ordered by the Colorado State Patrol under emergency conditions.The right of a bicyclist to use public roadways was established in Swift v. City of Topeka, Supreme Court of Kansas in 1890, long before motorized vehicles were established users of publicly-funded roads. In Trotwood v. Seltz, the Ohio Court of Appeals decided in 2000 that a bicyclist had the right to travel no more than 15 MPH in a traffic lane where the posted speed limit was 45 MPH. Merely traveling at a speed less than the posted maximum speed limit is not a basis for receiving a traffic citation. I come from an Amish area of the United States where horse and buggy commonly use traffic lanes. My use of the shoulder of the freeway is far less intrusive.Despite any statute passed by Congress or state legislature, bicycles cannot be prohibitted from riding the shoulder of the interstate freeway system. Constitutional rights trump statutes. Congress defers to the states over matters of police powers. The Colorado State Constitution has been determined under common law to guarantee to every citizen the right of intrastate movement on the roads. Therefore, the prohibitions in the statute must be the least restrictive means to achieve safety. Forcing a bicyclist to ride a snow-covered path under avalanche chutes is more dangerous, and quite impractical, than allowing the bicyclist to ride on the shoulder of the freeway where there is no alternative route that is maintained in winter. The burden of safely negotiating around any slow-moving vehicle on a road, including a freeway, is on the vehicle overtaking the slower vehicle. The vehicle only needs to operate at a speed that is reasonable for that particular type of vehicle.Right to use roads and highways. Every citizen has an inalienable right to make use of the public highways of the state; every citizen has full freedom to travel from place to place in the enjoyment of life and liberty. People v. Nothaus, 147 Colo. 210, 363 P.2d 180 (1961). Every citizen has the right to go freely on the streets at any hour of the day or night, provided he is there for a legitimate purpose, such as any legitimate business or pleasure. Dominguez v. City & County of Denver, 147 Colo. 233, 363 P.2d 661 (1961).As a matter of judicial review, hopefully, a court on motion for summary judgment, would find that intrastate travel is a fundamental constitutional right. This would require that the state's restriction on bicycle transportation would need to have been established by a compelling interest: transportation safety. In that event, the statute must be narrowly tailored: bicycles are not allowed on the interstate freeway sections that are supported by a maintained alternative pathway within a quarter mile. Furthermore, the statute must be the least restrictive means of achieving transportation safety: the statute is least restrictive if it allows travel on the interstate freeway if a bicyclist occupies the safest corridor of the lanes, likely to be considered the right side of the right shoulder pavement. Therefore, any judge ought to dismiss a citation written against a bicyclist where the statute is excessively broad or, certainly, irrationally applied.Aside from state constitutional arguments, the wording of the statute actually opens three defenses that may be considered by a finder-of-fact in a matter of judicial dismissal or jury nullification. First, there is the mistake of fact defense based on the lack of any notice that bicycles are not allowed on the shoulder of a section of freeway if no sign specifically bars use in an area. Second, the bicyclist is legally justified to undertake a behavior that may otherwise be illegal under the circumstances that no safe alternative is provided by the state failure to maintain a bicycle route in winter. Similarly, a necessity defense may be possible based on the avoidance of hazards on the alternative route created by bears, elk, beavers, foxes, yellow-bellied marmots, mountain goats, deep snow, ice, avalanches, falling dead trees, and rolling boulders that all impede travel and routinely create hazards on the unmaintained recreation path adjacent to the freeway. more

Voting Question: Why does a motorcycle become more stable as its velocity increases?

A motorcycle going 60MPH will not tend to 'roll' as much as a motorcycle going 0MPH. In other words, the bike will tend not to fall over as 'fast', or probably more accurately, a bike will not tend to fall over without more resistance if the center of gravity of the bike+rider system moves beyond a restoring force. Why? I've thought of a few things which may or may not be wrong. One is simple air resistance. The faster you go, the more drag and resistance to any movement exists. I like to think of it, in a horribly tortured analogy, as similar to falling over in air vs. falling over in water. Though you might float, and the analogy is screwed to start with amongst other possible reasons, I hope you get the reasoning; you'll fall over with more resistance in water then in air. Another, which I am struggling to fully comprehend whether it applies or not, is the spinning of the wheels. The faster you go, the faster the wheels of your motorcycle spin. There is... for lack of a better word, 'energy' in there. Now what that rotational momentum and energy does for stability, I can't really pin down for sure, but I think it may be a possibility. I seem to recall... precession? That classic physics demonstration where the instructor spins a bicycle wheel, then flips the axis 90 degrees until the wheel spins along an axis perpendicular to the ground, 'suspended' by 'magic'. Oooh. A simple experiment for a physics caveman to confirm this would be simple; get a motorcycle. Suspend it. See how it reacts to forces when its wheels are not moving, and when its wheels are spinning at an appreciable rate. In any case, even if the spinning of the wheels DOES provide some sort of resistance to a rotating force (torque), I cannot exactly pin down why, and definitely not describe it mathematically, not without alot of googling which I cannot do at the moment (im serious bro, rofl lul). OK. So far two possible resistive forces to a torque (I hope that is technically what I am describing): Air resistance, and a force from the spinning of the wheels. Perhaps a more obvious reason is simple momentum, though I am unsure if it is applicable. Assuming a bike moving perfectly vertically, there would be no rotational momentum, considering an axis along the length of the bike. I feel I am missing something obvious. In any case, if I pretend I am driving a wheel-less motorcycle in a vacuum, for some odd reason I still feel as if it will be more difficult to rotate the space motorcycle traveling at 60MPH than at 0MPH. If this natural inclination is correct, then I am missing something in accounting for all forces, etc. If it isn't correct, I have simply been living on earth for too long :) more

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Back to School time for kids - Abington Mariner

Once Around the Park, Then Farewell - New York Times

Going to the sun in Montana - Denver Post

Going to Mars? It'll be one wild trip - MSNBC Cosmiclog

A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW - The Keene Sentinel

It’s time for a girlfriends’ getaway - Providence Journal

Film project by Meghan Parkansky of WFRV Channel 5 will document Green Bay Packers fans' passion - Post-Crescent

Africa Commerce, Conflict Coexist On The Congo - WBUR

Film will document Green Bay Packers fans' passion - Green Bay Press-Gazette

Letter from Hanoi: Vietnam old, new and ever - GADLING

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Resolved Question: Whether a bicyclist has a right to utilize the shoulder of the Interstate Freeway System.?

Voting Question: Why does a motorcycle become more stable as its velocity increases?

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