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So the state attorney general hasn't emailed me back yet with some clarification on this so I thought I would ask you guys.
do people in wheelchairs have to obey stop and yield signs in parking lots.. the reason I ask is in our parking lot outside of my office window there is a 3-way stop. This dude in a wheelchair just blew straight through it yesterday. No I don't really give a shit as far as he's concerned but it did make me question.
Technically he is in a two-wheeled device the same as a bicycle. And we have already established that bicyclist must obey the same traffic laws as motorists. And If a bicyclist has to come to a complete stop so then shouldn't the wheelchair. Technically a bicycle is just a foot powered wheelchair in a different configuration.
Also wheelchairs are allowed on the sidewalk but bicycles are not. Does that mean that these new fancy hand powered bicycles that you lay back in are allowed on the sidewalk and don't have to obey traffic laws?
If a person who was normally in a wheelchair got into one of the hand powered bicycles would the laws change. Technically a wheelchairs nothing more than a hand powered bicycle.
do people in wheelchairs have to obey stop and yield signs in parking lots.. the reason I ask is in our parking lot outside of my office window there is a 3-way stop. This dude in a wheelchair just blew straight through it yesterday. No I don't really give a shit as far as he's concerned but it did make me question.
Technically he is in a two-wheeled device the same as a bicycle. And we have already established that bicyclist must obey the same traffic laws as motorists. And If a bicyclist has to come to a complete stop so then shouldn't the wheelchair. Technically a bicycle is just a foot powered wheelchair in a different configuration.
Also wheelchairs are allowed on the sidewalk but bicycles are not. Does that mean that these new fancy hand powered bicycles that you lay back in are allowed on the sidewalk and don't have to obey traffic laws?
If a person who was normally in a wheelchair got into one of the hand powered bicycles would the laws change. Technically a wheelchairs nothing more than a hand powered bicycle.