Oppose SB362 before House 2022-02-22
Subcommittee hearing 4pm Wednesday, 2/23/22 To sign up to speak : My email to subcommittee members I need your help. Every school day, I either bike with my children to our bus stop or lead a group of kids biking to our elementary school. We bike on neighborhood streets in Arlington, and we can keep the kids safe by having adults ride to the left of the kids. Periodically, I lead Kidical Mass Arlington group bike rides. Last year, the Virginia General Assembly made our rides safer by eliminating the requirement that groups of people biking on the street move to single file when a car approaches from behind. This change -- allowing "two abreast" biking -- is safer for people cycling for many reasons: in addition to allowing adults to ride to the left of children, drivers are more likely to see two people biking beside each other than to see the back of one, and it reduces the distance drivers have to travel when passing cyclists. However, that safety improvement is at ris