Safe Passing, but not on Hamilton Pool Road

So the Texas Bicycle Coalition is all proud that they got SB248 past the Senate. But they passed it with this little provision known as the Brimer amendment. The amendment means you don't need to give three feet of clearance on roads without paved shoulders!

If you don't need a safe passing law on Hamilton Pool Road, where do you need it?

The bill as amended is worse than no bill at all, because it enshrines in the law that the three foot requirement isn't necessary on those roads. I mean, right now, you can at least argue that it is a necessary safety measure whether enshrined in law or not; but now anyone can point to this law and refute that.

For that reason, we now have to defeat the Safe Passing bill. Or get that obnoxious amendment removed in conference. The Brimer Death Bill. Keerist.