{"id":960,"date":"2010-06-06T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-06-06T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:07:20","slug":"Bicyclists-may-face-fines-for-handheld-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/Bicyclists-may-face-fines-for-handheld-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclists may face fines for handheld cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bike Messengers might have a tough time with this one. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com\/10203\/bicyclists-may-face-fines-for-handheld-cell-phones\/\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bicyclists: Don\u2019t pedal and talk on your cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>That was part of the message Thursday from the state Senate, which voted 21-16 to add for the first time a $20 initial fine for bicyclists for gripping hand-held cell phones while riding. You\u2019ll have to go hands free. Subsequent offenses would cost $50.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which now goes to the Assembly, also would increase the base fine for motorists from $20 for the first offense to $50 for talking without using a handsfree device.<\/p>\n<p>As Road Warrior readers know, that $20 fine for drivers really turns out to be $142 with all kinds of additional county and state fees. So for $50, that ticket is going to really cost $256. Under the bill subsequent offenses will cost you $100, which with fees will really cost $446. Click here to read earlier story on all of the fees.<\/p>\n<p>But under the bill, sponsored by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, bicyclists would NOT pay the extra fees. The total fine for cyclists would be $20 and $50. Period.<\/p>\n<p>The California Bicycle Coalition supports Simitian\u2019s bill, according to the Sacramento Bee. Spokesman Jim Brown told the Bee that drivers carelessly using cells endanger cyclists, and cyclists endanger<br \/>\nthemselves when they clutch a cell while biking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike Messengers might have a tough time with this one. From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat Bicyclists: Don\u2019t pedal and talk on your cell phone. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-bike","tag-3-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}