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Hochul: New drivers must take a pedestrian and bicycle safety course to obtain license
wgrz.com ^ | 7/15/22 | Olivia Beilein

Posted on 07/18/2022 10:00:20 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New legislation regarding bicycle safety will come into effect as Gov. Kathy Hochul takes measures that will require new drivers to learn about pedestrian and bicycle safety when on the road.

This new requirement will be apart of new drivers pre-licensing exam and will be a prerequisite to obtaining any motor vehicle license.

"My top priority as Governor is to keep New Yorkers safe, and it is common sense to make pedestrian and bike safety education mandatory for drivers," Governor Hochul said in a statement. "This law will help prevent crashes and save lives, and I thank my partners in the Assembly and Senate for passing this legislation to make our streets safer."

This new legislation will soon be added to the department of motor vehicles instruction handbook, and it's not the only new driving safety measures being put into play.

(Excerpt) Read more at wgrz.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: dmv; hochul; ny; safety
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To: Psalm 73
We may have to go Amish.


41 posted on 07/18/2022 10:27:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: KarlInOhio
Your moral smugness will not stop that SUV you just got in front of.

I had a guy test the physics of that on my small SUV. He lost. Thankfully I had three witnesses to tell the responding officers the guy on the bike rode out in front of me when I had the green.

42 posted on 07/18/2022 10:32:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Oh, they’ll be going after the electric bicycle$. Bet the rent.

My beef is everyone on the road is required to carry insurance, but bicyclist, the same ones who routinely blow through stop signs and traffic lights, are not. I know of several cases where bicyclist have caused collisions resulting in injuries and deaths.


43 posted on 07/18/2022 10:34:56 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I wonder if this course will address what to do when a bunch of leftist Clymers decide that they are more special than everybody else and block the road.


44 posted on 07/18/2022 10:39:52 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: AbolishCSEU

A good idea. The feeling of selfish entitlement has carried-over into kids driving habits. Plus they are much more likely to be distracted by electronic devices and not paying attention to others on the road that may be easier to miss.


45 posted on 07/18/2022 10:44:49 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You can say that again!


46 posted on 07/18/2022 10:45:12 AM PDT by DFG
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To: AbolishCSEU

Why stop there? Mandatory training on how to use a crosswalk. Required training on food safety in the kitchen. Elementary school training on use of electric outlets, and a masterclass in changing lightbulbs. Required training on lawnmower use. And so much more! Kathy, act now to protect the citizens of NY. if we can just one life, it would be worth it. /sarcasm


47 posted on 07/18/2022 10:49:04 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: AbolishCSEU

...” new requirement will be ***apart*** of new drivers pre-licensing “ .....

....sigh ......


48 posted on 07/18/2022 11:11:04 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: FlyingEagle
Hilarious. None of these illegal aliens we send up there have been to the Safeway School of Driving.

And cops in NYC usually just let them go after realizing they have no license or insurance.

49 posted on 07/18/2022 11:21:48 AM PDT by montag813
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To: MinorityRepublican

You can say that again........


50 posted on 07/18/2022 11:22:16 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: AbolishCSEU

It would be one thing if the law was reuiring bicyclists and pedestrians to acquire licenses to traverse public pathways, at least that would show the total rediculousness of the law and get it repealed in the coursts sooner than it will take to get the same repeal of the stupid law being proposed.


51 posted on 07/18/2022 12:42:39 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Rummyfan

WE have winding hilly single lane roads here. I’ve said choice words more than once when rounding a curve and there’s a cyclist struggling so slowly to get up the hill right in the middle of the road. Bunch of idiots are going to get someone killed.


52 posted on 07/18/2022 1:35:03 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Do bicycles riders have to take a car, truck, and street sign
course?


53 posted on 07/18/2022 5:49:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Welcome to the nanny state of New York.


54 posted on 07/18/2022 5:54:13 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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