How in Good Conscience Can St. Charles County, Missouri Ban Bicycles?

Have we really come to a point when we will simply give our roadsover to the fastest vehicles? This same line of reasoning could be usedto close all types of roads where there are fast-moving cars and noroom for anything else.

I feel for the young woman who was hurt trying to avoid someone on abike, but using that example as a reason to ban people riding bikes isabsurd. How many deaths and injuries have occurred on those same roadsbetween two people in cars? Rural roads are the main cause of trafficfatalities in America. We should do more to ban speeding than to banpeople using a vehicle that is incapable of it…

Everyone frames this as "motorists" and "bicyclists" — but this isnot about mode labels, this is about people and mobility. Our sharedroads (being different from interstate highways and biking trails) arebuilt to move people from one place to another. It’s anextremely slippery slope to even consider policy that would ban onetype of user simply because they travel more slowly than another andare seen as an inconvenience to maintaining a certain speed.