FW: HB1270 Motorists to Stop for Peds In Crosswalks

[Bruce&Linda Dwyer]

FYI
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From: Lloyd Vye [mailto:bdvye at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: vbf: HB1270 Motorists to Stop for Peds In Crosswalks

Delegate Ebbin's bill (which is identical to Sen. Ticer's bill on the 
Senate side) was reported out of House Transportation SubCommittee 2 to 
the full House Transportation Committee this morning by a 5 - 2 vote.  
Del. Fralin of Roanoke led  the opposition as he has done to similar 
bills over the past several years, but when it came to a vote only 
Chairman Carrico joined him in voting against the bill. Del. Ebbin was 
well prepared and did a nice job of defending the bill, as its patron.

Coupled with the reporting of Senator Ticer's SB644 to the full Senate 
last Thursday, we now have two bills still alive, which is far beyond 
any progress made in previous years, so we are gaining some traction on 
this.  There were a number of  witnesses speaking in favor of the bill 
this morning, including  representatives from  several northern Virginia 
PTA's, Fairfax County, Fairfax County Police Dept., City of Alexandria, 
and myself for VBF. 

 Delegate Rust from Herndon weighed in that the cyclists on the W&OD 
Trail, near his home, were not dis-mounting  to cross the streets in his 
area, but were just riding across, although he ended up voting to report.

 Del. Fralin raised several questions, all to the effect that he thought 
Yield was sufficient, and that requiring motorists to Stop would somehow 
create more problems than it would solve.

Now we'll see how the bill fares  in the full Transportation Committee, 
which could be tomorrow afternoon, or Thursday morning.

Anyone who has their Delegate on the Transportation Committee  should 
now call their office to ask for their support, and it also is now 
timely for EVERYONE to alert their Senator to support SB644 when it hits 
the floor of the full Senate, any day now. 

Bud Vye

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