9.28.2009

Sidewalks are legal for bicyclists.

Let there be no doubt about it. It's 100% legal to ride on the sidewalks of the City of Idaho Falls. The City Council legalized this practice on August 28, 2008. By a unanimous vote, Council members repealed prior language that essentially outlawed riding bikes on sidewalks.

We've toyed with various ways to present this information. We think this method works "for now." We will probably come up with a different format soon. The full minutes of the Aug. 28 meeting ran to 26 pages. We deleted all but the item relating to the ordinance change. Then we coverted it to a PDF and then exported it as a JPG. Then we shrunk the JPGs and posted them to the blog which resulted in even further apparent shrinkage. Simply click on each small photo to see the larger readable version. (Thanks to Jeffrey F. of IFCP for getting the Council meeting minutes to us.)
Jeffrey also alerted us to the "Opie & The Spoiled Kid" episode of
the Andy Griffith Show.
It's about how Mayberry's
finest enforce the law:
"no riding on the sidewalk."
to see a 5 minute
YouTube version
of the episode.

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