We're drifting a little off-topic from BRBR's cycling mission, but in the finger-waving spirit of the recent days' news are even more ideas for the regulation of tangential streetlife activities. This one proposes ticketing pedestrians wearing headphones or talking on the phone while crossing the street.
In New York, a bill is pending in the legislature’s transportation committee that would ban the use of mobile phones, iPods or other electronic devices while crossing streets — runners and other exercisers included. Legislation pending in Oregon would restrict bicyclists from using mobile phones and music players, and a Virginia bill would keep such riders from using a “hand-held communication device.”
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