#1 2009-03-07 21:22:03

damicoaustin
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Safe Passing Law Hearing This Week

Safe Passing Bill Hearing in State Senate Transportation Committee!
An Update, and What You Can Do.

The 2009 Safe Passing Act, Senate Bill SB 488 will be heard by the Texas State Senate Committee on Transportation & Homeland Security on Wednesday morning, March 11, 2009 in Hearing Room E1.016 in the Capitol Extension.

The bill includes the "3-feet clearance" provision for cars passing cyclists. It has also been expanded to address right and left hooks and harassment for a range of "vulnerable road users" including pedestrians, persons in wheelchairs, utility workers, motorcyclists and others on the road or roadside not in a protective steel vehicle shell. Click here for the current text of the bill.

What you can do to help.... Read More Here at http://bicycleaustin.info/blog/?p=195

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