TO ALL CALIFORNIA MOTORCYCLE RIDERS: I urge your YES vote on AB1047
If you ride, this affects you! If AB1047 passes, it will 'prohibit' NHTSA (Federal) funding for the “Motorcycle Only Checkpoints” in California. It only takes a couple of minutes to contact your CA Senator by email or snail mail & could save you (and all of us) a ton of time, money and pain down the road - literally! We ALL need to send this message throughout the State Senate , Thank you! PLEASE SHARE...

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January 31, 2012

Senator Mark DeSaulnier, Chair
Senate Transportation & Housing Committee
State Capitol – Room 5035
Sacramento, CA 94248-0001
The Honorable Senator DeSaulnier:
I am writing to you to respectfully ask for your support of AB1047; a bill to CEASE federal NHTSA funding of motorcycle-only checkpoints.
The funding of such checkpoints has made the passage of AB1047 of paramount importance. Across California, law enforcement agencies have been using these funds, not to establish generic checkpoints intended to stop all vehicles looking for impaired operators, or unsafe vehicles. Rather, these checkpoints have been stationed adjacent to motorcycle events and stop only motorcycle riders while automobile drivers are waved on. While law enforcement officials may defend the program as a safety measure, there is no substantive proof of its efficacy.
I concur that safety issues are of the most importance – for ALL motorists – to that end, the best way for NHTSA and state/local jurisdictions to reduce motorcycle crashes is to employ proven strategies (i.e.: rider education and motorcycle awareness programs, etc.) that decrease the likelihood of crashes from occurring in the first place.
Furthermore, the common practice of law enforcement agencies stereo-typing law-abiding citizens based solely on their chosen mode of transportation, borders on a discriminatory practice (i.e.: profiling).
This is NOT what America is all about. I urge your YES vote on AB1047.
Respectfully,
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Just passed similar bill here in VA this year, just waiting for Gov signature. If you do nothing now, no whinning later when you are forced into a motorcycle only checkpoint!

 

I'm in CA, thanks for the heads-up, Will do it today!