With Pedaler's Jamboree, one of the biggest bicycle rides of the
summer, scheduled this Labor Day weekend on the Raccoon River Valley
Trail, there's been a clear new reminder given to trail users that those
stop signs at trail intersections of roads and highways indeed mean
stop.
"It's the law," said Jeremy King, a law enforcement officer with the
Iowa Department of Natural Resources, "but even more important, this is a
safety issue. I don't like giving people tickets for something like
this, but I also don't want to be pulling anybody off the grill of a
Chevrolet truck, either."
On Saturday morning, Aug. 29, as he was starting "a routine patrol"
southeast of Panora,King saw a bicyclist ride through a stop sign on
the RRVT and across a gravel road. He drove ahead and saw the same
bicyclist ride through a second stop sign, then a third. Finally, he
chased him down and gave him a ticket.
Once started,King reports he spent three hours observing 29
bicyclists on the trail in that area, and 21 of them failed to stop at
stop signs.
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Thanks for posting Chuck!
This isn't the first time this happened...
Tickets issues along High Trestle Trail - June 3, 2012