Missouri Lawmaker Wants Cyclists to Fly Flags from Bikes | Bicycling

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Two years ago, Missouri state legislator Jay Houghton co-sponsored a bill that would have banned bikes from state highways. The bill failed, but Houghton is back at it with an equally nutty anti-bike measure.

Missouri House Bill 2046 is as straightforward as it gets. It’s all of a paragraph long, and would amend Missouri state law to require every bicycle “operating upon a lettered county road” to be equipped with a fluorescent orange flag “suspended not less than 15 feet above the roadway.”

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Missouri Lawmaker Wants Cyclists to Fly Flags from Bikes | Bicycling