BIKE: Helmet law was not repealed

[Mike Dahmus]

On 02:30 PM 3/12/2005 -0600, Michael Bluejay wrote:

>On Mar 12, 2005, at 2:02 PM, 
>forum-bicycleaustin.info-request wrote:
>
>>Ancient and elephantine listites will recall that this
>>was the same Editorial Board that called Bill Spelman to the mat for
>>repealing the short-lived but extraordinarily divisive, destructive, and
>>dangerous bicycle helmet law.
>
>
>I hate to get picky, but the helmet law was not repealed, it was amended 
>to apply only to chlidren (<18).  This is important to me for two reasons:

Actually, as I recall, we got it canned for kids too due to the 
disproportionate enforcement against minorities. Tommy probably remembers 
more details.


Mike Dahmus
mdahmus