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August 04, 2009 08:02 PM UTC
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They’re cool, and now that I can actually cross Wadsworth in one? Yay! Sign me up.
151 new laws sounds like a lot?
This is the effective date for laws not subject to a “safety clause” where there is a theoretical right to bring a petition to require voter approval of a law before the law takes effect. This democratic right does not apply to laws with a safety clause.
In practice, there is almost no judicial review of the actual bona fide necessity of a safety clause and a large share of all laws have one. The 151 laws is a minority of the total.
Doug Bruce in his brief legislative tenure, argued strenuously against the inclusion of safety clauses on otherwise uncontroversial bills, usefully futilely.
The safety clause concern is mostly theoretical however. Citizens are almost never organized enough to force a vote on legislatively passed laws that don’t have a safety clause anyway. It takes too much time and money to get a petition together and the laws involved are frequently uncontroversial and have little public impact (last session included a bill to change the dimensions of the state seal, for example).
with speed limits of only 35 miles MPH? Sounds fun but with very limited use.
There are roads in the mountains connecting small towns where you shouldn’t go more than 35 around the twisty turns. I wonder how one of these would do on Indpendence Pass?
Not very usefull during high snow times, or for that matter, any snow times….
Intercity highways are the main exceptions, although some divided boulevards and country roads have 45 mph or 55 mph limits.
A parent at my neighborhood school takes his kids to school in one of them, driving on city streets.
running errands in town etc. as well as to get you to public transportation sites. It would have to be in addition to another car to take out on the interstates, etc. until we have extensive high speed rail for that kind of commuting.
I have a daily 7 mile commute over 35 mph city streets (Colo. Blvd or Monaco Blvd depending on traffic). Only about 100 miles a week, and nothing more than a 2 mile radius on weekends for shopping (love living in the city 😉
The models I’ve seen tend to have at least a 100 mile range, so a weekly charge for just a few pennies makes good sense.
Barring snow or ice (and a bad case of the uglies like the model above), I could see having one of these babies!
Then I could nurse my AWD vehicle along for a lot more years.
people do go way over 35 on such streets though so you might have to put up with a lot of hostility.
… 40-45mph is typical on Colo. Blvd — in particular south of the I-25 interchange.
But I rode motorcycles for 30 years, so driving defensively comes second nature. I’d stick to the far right lane no matter what.
When I was a kid learning to drive (drivers ed was part of the regular High School curriculum) on the first day behind the wheel our teacher took us onto the expressway (that’s what we called them in Chicago, not freeway) and he also taught us that we were supposed to go five miles over the limit. That was the proper driving speed. Of course there are lots of situations around here where if you aren’t doing 20 over, people are angrily tail-gating you and passing you like you’re standing still.
like those in the military, or a lower transaction cost version of the rental car system, perhaps on a video rental or airport cart model.
I’m still waiting for my Jettson’s mobile!!!
C’mon, since grade school we’ve been hearing about the car of the future. I want to fly my car to the capitol and park it right outside the House balcony, or maybe tie it up to the dome like a space age horse.
Can a man get a hovercraft here please?!
Imagine being in one of these cute little coffins when someone driving, say, an F350 hits you at 35 mph. I’ll gladly accept worse mileage for a little more protection from other drivers.
I would hate to be involved in a head-on between two of them at anything near legal speed. And I doubt that a side-on would be much better. And they are definitely “fair weather” transport.
many quite silly and voted down in party line votes, because it was considered on the same day as a same sex benefits bill, but was earlier on the calendar. The amendments were used as a crude form of filibuster.
The merits aren’t that different from the exceptions provided for tractors used in horticulture and construction vehicles that need to make use of ordinary roads despite being slow.
The key point is that the law applies primarily to “state highways with speed limits of 35 mph or less.” While the everyday use of the word “highway” doesn’t include any roads with speed limits of 35 mph or less, the technical definition under state law includes many road that people think of as mere city streets.
They should allow people to do the short trip to the grocery store without taking along their 3000 pound behemoth. That’s a good thing. They also could be the first generation of a concept that would be available at a daily rental rate at major transit stops. More people might take the bus or light rail if they knew that if something came up and they needed wheels during the day, they would have them. Or, if the workplace is just a bit too far from the transit stop for a comfortable daily walk, you simply take the little electric car the last mile to work. Similar to the bikes for rent in Paris, if you took the bus to work but then needed to run a lunch time errand, you could rent one of these for an hour.
But it has no horn, dammit.
Maybe a set of Cadillac horns from the junkyard?
Nothing else gets any respect on the road.
I suppose you should settle for what you can get. 🙂
in Thornton since last year. Glad to see state and others catching up.