Japanese government to require road safety classes for reckless cyclists.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130329003707.htm

The government adopted a bill at a Cabinet meeting Friday requiring rogue bicycle riders to take compulsory safety lessons.

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Under the planned new rules, bicycle riders who have seriously violated traffic rules at least two times may be required, subject to public safety commissions' discretion, to take safety lessons. If they refuse, a fine of up to 50,000 yen will be imposed.

After the bill becomes law, the government will decide which kinds of violations would result in imposing compulsory lessons.

Ignoring traffic lights and drunk riding are among the offenses being considered, officials said.

Yes. We need this HERE. Especially for the kids around here who ride on the wrong side of the road.

[ElboRuum]

1. I find this would apply more to...

...the Lance Armstrong Used To Be Wannabes Before He Got Busted For Doping who think stopping at an intersection would be quite the imposition on their training and that riding 5 abreast at 25 mph on a 40 mph road backing up traffic for 2 miles is an appropriate interpretation of "sharing the road".

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Later on in the article, it states that this bill would give the police...

...The power to pull people over who are riding bikes without brakes. YES. Get those damn brakeless fixies off the road. they belong on a velodrome track, not the streets.