🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:21:52 -0700, Tom Keats wrote:

> In article <1osj0zczmfau3.1nllgibcngxnf.dlg@40tude.net>,
> 	_ <jtayNOSPAMlor@hfDONTSENDMESPAMx.andara.com> writes:
>> On 19 Apr 2007 10:57:09 -0700, gojogo wrote:
>> 
>>> Howdy All,
>>> I'm an upstate NYer trying to figure out the best touring roads in
>>> your neck of the woods for a 3-4 wk solo trip this August.  I've never
>>> been to eastern BC (got as far as Revelstoke a few yrs ago) and would
>>> love any advice/info regarding less-trafficked cycling routes outside
>>> of Vancouver.  My Surly and I greatly appreciate it.
>> 
>> You will have to wear a magic foam hat - it's required by law; and should
>> there be a gravelled shoulder at the side of the paved roadway case law
>> requires that you ride on that, rather than the paved portion.
> 
> No.
> 
> While B.C. cyclists are mandated to paved highway shoulders
> where it's practicable to do so, we are not mandated off the
> paved portions of the highways.
> 
> The whole thing boils down to some legal terminology --
> roadway vs. highway.  Both "roadway" and "highway" pertain
> to paved portions.  There's even a proviso in the British
> Columbia Motor Vehicle Act that explicitly states that
> cyclists are not relegated off the paved portions of highways.

I just checked - you are correct.  This is a welcome change, since the case
of the cyclists who was faulted for not riding on the gravel.  The other
anti-cycling provisions (magic hats, no ordinaries, unicyclists, or
fixed-wheels) remain....