Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park - photo courtesy of Virginia.org
As currently written, the Senate’s transportation bill, S.1813, would introduce mandatory sidepath law on roads in our National Parks and other Federal lands. (This means that anywhere there’s a “bike path” next to a road, cyclists would be required to use it, and prohibited from using the roadway.)
In Virginia, this could affect cyclists’ right to the road on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Colonial Parkway, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Shenandoah National Park, and our many National Battlefields, Monuments, and military bases.
Note that Virginia has no mandatory sidepath or bike lane law. In fact, state law prohibits such laws.
Don’t let the Feds take away your right to the road. The League of American Bicyclists has prepared a petition to remove this language from the transportation bill. Please sign it, and get your friends and family members to sign it too.
Please forward this to your bike club mailing lists, and share it on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc.
Also see this article at Adventure Journal.
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