Your Views: Lack of political diversity produces bad laws | Alexandria Times
To the editor: Virginia House of Delegates bill 2262, which permits bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs, is emblematic of how governance goes wrong when one party takes total control. On Feb. 21, all of Alexandria’s House of Delegates members voted for this bill, which contains the following provision which, thankfully, the almost evenly divided Senate sidetracked: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the operator of a bicycle may treat a stop sign as a yield sign if the operator (i) exercises due care, (ii) determines that it is safe to proceed, and (iii) yields the right of...
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