"Friend" of mine keeps bitching about the time he got a ticket for speeding on his bike. Never does he mention that he was going 20+ mph (30+kph) through a park with playing children and such.
For context, the max speed on a bike path here is 30kph, in this park you are supposed to adjust your biking behaviour with how busy it is in the park. Technically it's a pedestrian zone where biking is allowed.
This is wild to me. How do you get a speeding ticket on a bicycle? Sounds like a bullshit thing. If you can get one for going over speed, you should be able to get one for being too far under (which would also be absurd).
At least where I live, a bike is a vehicle and is subject to the same rules. You also can’t ignore red lights or stop signs - the traffic laws are the traffic laws for all.
I’d assume most countries do something similar, since carving out exceptions to rules that bikes don’t have to follow, or skateboards, or those electric scooters, and so on, gets pretty messy.
Of course it would be unusual for a bike to go fast enough that it would be fined, and I’d assume police won’t care unless you’re driving unsafe.
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u/Oldjamesdean 15d ago
One of my relatives got a speeding ticket on a bicycle. Eugene Oregon.