Spokesman-Review Letter to the Editor
Helmets About Money
We don’t need government to tell us we must wear a helmet to ride a bike, skateboard or anything with wheels. We can decide for ourselves.
It’s just another way for them to write tickets for more revenue. If they want more revenue, they can make a law for pedestrians, people in walkers and wheelchairs to wear helmets.
If you get a traffic ticket, you now can go to court and pay more money to have the ticket go from a moving violation to a non-moving violation. It’s not about safety; it’s about money.
Gust Abariotes
Spokane Valley
Agree or disagree? Keep in mind the countywide bike helmet initiative is proposed by the Spokane Regional Health District, not County Commissioners.
4 comments:
Make money for who? The city has had the law for a couple of years and in my neighborhood I have not seen them even give a warning to the riders without a helmet.
Thanks for saying that @Charles. I thought it, but I am always saying 'it comes back to a lack of enforcement due to limited resources' so I thought I'd just leave that part off this time so I don't sound like a broken (and negative) record. It's true though. I see lots of people riding within the City without helmets and I've never heard of anyone getting ticketed.
I wear a helmet when I shop at the hardware store.
I wear a helmet in my office anymore these days. You just never know.
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