Bike Ticket At UC Berkeley Costs More Than Pot Possession
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Earlier I posted on the fact that a j-walking ticket could cost you more than being found with an ounce of marijuana. In UC Berkeley, a bike ticket could cost you more as well. From the Los Angeles Times:
Trouble is brewing in the Bay Area bastion of bicyclists’ rights.
UC Berkeley students — already squeezed by steep tuition increases — are banding together to protest campus citations for bike infractions that run $220 apiece and exceed many vehicle violations.
UC Berkeley police say they have issued 103 bike citations from August to November, a 41% increase over the same period last year, nabbing students for riding through designated “dismount zones” and locking their bikes to railings instead of often-overfilled racks.
Students in sticker shock were sucking it up until social welfare senior Daniel Distante created a Facebook page called BikeBusters about a month ago, giving birth to a movement.
The forum has triggered a discussion across the Bay Area on the need for better campus bike conditions, education on existing rules, and the labyrinthine vehicle codes that enable UC Berkeley police to issue such fat tickets.
Bike enthusiasts from as far as Britain have cheered the fighters. But the hundreds of comments have run strongly against the students, with irked motorists and self-described “responsible bicyclists” bashing them as “whining brats” who should follow the rules…
That’s California for you. A Nanny State on steroids that wants to control people beyond reason, but let them be high as a kite while doing it.
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