Knowable law

I’ll tell you why. Constitutionally no law can conflict with another law. So if a bicycle is a vehicle (which it is), and all vehicles must follow lane law, then no separate provision can exclude one vehicle over another.

Yes you say, but big trucks and farm tractors and 4-wheelers have separate laws governing their actions on the road, and they’re vehicles. These laws designate a ‘class’ of vehicle and therefore the state can also designate a separate ‘class’ for bicycles too, with specific laws that govern their actions.

The key point is how the law is written. All laws must be clearly knowable by all parties. So if the state says no 4-wheeler can get a license tag … then that’s clearly understandable (as long as 4-wheeler is adequately defined). If the state says big trucks have specific speed limits and restricted access to some lanes of road … then that is clearly understandable.

However when the state writes a law that says bikes must stay as far to the right as practicable …. Then that is not clearly understandable

… but those laws are specifically written, with clearly knowable terms.

It is clearly knowable for the city to say big trucks cannot operate in the outside lanes, or only on certain designated city streets

Gene Haynes