Providence Bicycle Coalition (PBC)
The RI House passed, what can now best be called an “Unsafe Passing Bill”, this past Saturday. You can read the entire bill (pdf format) online. Apparently, the bill was ammended on the floor of the House before passage, but, as of yet, we have been unable to determine what exactly these changes were.
In general, [...]
The House Judiciary Committee recommended the passage of H5074 Sub-A yesterday. As such, you can finally read the Sub A version of the bill online. The bill will now go before the entire House. My understanding is that in most cases this just a formality, as the House members typically follow the recommendation of the [...]
This afternoon, the House Judicary Committee was considering H5074. Dick and I stopped by the State House to show some support from the cycling community. Unfortunately, the bill being considered by the committee isn’t available online anywhere, so I can’t provide a pointer for everyone. We did manage to get our hands on a copy [...]
It’s that time again, our next monthly advocacy meeting is April 13th @ 6pm at the offices of The US Open Cycling Foundation (269 South Main Street, Providence). It’s going to be a busy meeting, on the agenda:
Nomination and Election of Officers (please come prepared with nomination suggestions)
Chair
Secretary
Continuing Business
PSA project (Matt)
Driver’s Manual project (Sue)
B2WD (Dick)
Apeiron [...]
Aside from feeling a bit like a fish out of water at times, I think the hearing at the House Judiciary went fairly well yesterday. We had six people testify at the hearing in favor of legislation. The bill needs some additional crafting from lawyers, but we definitely managed to get their attention.
Once we’ve worked [...]
It turns out there is VERY little room available for onlookers in the house judiciary. As such, I wouldn’t recommend coming down unless you are really interested in the legislative process. We were under the impression that numbers would help our cause, unfortunately the are unlikely to make much of a difference.
Sorry for [...]
At our meeting with Representative Gemma, we proposed a combination of some changes to existing laws and wording for a completely new law based on the Orgeon Vulerable Roadway User legislation. These recommendations are what Representative Gemma will be presenting to the House Judiciary tomorrow instead of the original 3-foot legislation. If you plan to [...]
[ April 2, 2009; 4:00 pm; ] The H5074 hearing is now scheduled to be heard tomorrow, April 2nd, at 4pm in room 205 of the State House. We need to show our strength in numbers to support this legislation, so if you are avaiable PLEASE SHOW UP!
I’ll be posting revised versions of the bill later today, so you can read our [...]
Representative Gemma, the sponsor of H5074 has agreed to request the bill be postponed to give us a bit more time to provide him with suggested modifications. We will let everyone know when there is a new hearing date.
The time is upon us… The 3-foot legislation is scheduled to be heard by the House Committee on Judiciary:
House Bill No. 5074
BY Gemma, Flaherty, Ferri, Trillo
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES AND OTHER VEHICLES — PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD {LC98}
01/13/09 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
03/24/09 Scheduled for hearing and/or [...]