Georgia Checkpoint Update
#11
03-05-2011 | 10:22 AM
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From: Fair Oaks, Caliphornia
Georgia's attempts to curb motorcycle deaths was on good ground right up to but not including the checkpoints. "Motorcycle only" checkpoints is prejudicial, not to mention transportation profiling!!! I wonder how many people died in cage accidents, but they're not targeting them. A safety checkpoint is a sfety checkpoint and all people should be subject to them if done fairly and/or equally. BTW, it'll take more than a minute to check the license, registration and proof of insurance for someone on a bike.
I've been waiting a long time to legitimately claim to be a member of a minority and now I have arrived. Hot damn!!! Now I get to scream about social injustice... and not based on what happened two centuries ago, but on what's happening today....
EQUIL RIGHTS FOR BIKERS!!! Yeah Baby.....
... I think the next appropriate action is to go protest outside the Westbuthead Baptist Church...
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I've been waiting a long time to legitimately claim to be a member of a minority and now I have arrived. Hot damn!!! Now I get to scream about social injustice... and not based on what happened two centuries ago, but on what's happening today....
EQUIL RIGHTS FOR BIKERS!!! Yeah Baby.....
... I think the next appropriate action is to go protest outside the Westbuthead Baptist Church....
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Last edited by Motorbones; 03-05-2011 at 10:25 AM.
#13
03-05-2011 | 11:42 AM
From the MRF:
Georgia Department of Public Safety Announces Details of Motorcycle Only Roadside Checkpoints
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation reports that the Georgia Department of Public Safety (GA DPS) has announced some of the details of the motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints. The details include some the reasoning, time frame and locations of the checkpoints.
Lt. Colonel Mark McDonough, GA DPS Deputy Commissioner, explained that the reason for the checkpoints is the rise continued of motorcycle fatalities in the State of GA from 2005-2008. There were 167 motorcyclists killed in crashes in 2008.
McDonough did acknowledge the State's education campaign in 2009, which focused solely on raising awareness of motorcyclists with all other road users. The campaign included safety presentations to school, church, civic groups and media outreach by State Troopers. The GA DPS credits the campaign with a 35 percent decrease in motorcyclists fatalities over the previous year. The Department called this historic decrease a "good first step".
The next step, according to GA DPS, is the motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints.
The first of these checkpoints will be conducted Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 from 8AM-5PM along Interstate 75 at the southbound commercial vehicle inspection station in Monroe County. During the same time frame an additional checkpoint will be established at the southbound commercial vehicle inspection station along I-95 in Chatham County, north of Savannah.
The checkpoints will check for proper licensing, DOT helmets, alcohol usage, valid tags, as well the general operating condition of the motorcycle.
Lt. Col. McDonough claims that for the average operator with the proper license and equipment the delay should take about one minute.
Additional checkpoints will be conducted in the spring and fall of 2011. Checkpoints are funded into 2012 as well.
Georgia Department of Public Safety Announces Details of Motorcycle Only Roadside Checkpoints
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation reports that the Georgia Department of Public Safety (GA DPS) has announced some of the details of the motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints. The details include some the reasoning, time frame and locations of the checkpoints.
Lt. Colonel Mark McDonough, GA DPS Deputy Commissioner, explained that the reason for the checkpoints is the rise continued of motorcycle fatalities in the State of GA from 2005-2008. There were 167 motorcyclists killed in crashes in 2008.
McDonough did acknowledge the State's education campaign in 2009, which focused solely on raising awareness of motorcyclists with all other road users. The campaign included safety presentations to school, church, civic groups and media outreach by State Troopers. The GA DPS credits the campaign with a 35 percent decrease in motorcyclists fatalities over the previous year. The Department called this historic decrease a "good first step".
The next step, according to GA DPS, is the motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints.
The first of these checkpoints will be conducted Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 from 8AM-5PM along Interstate 75 at the southbound commercial vehicle inspection station in Monroe County. During the same time frame an additional checkpoint will be established at the southbound commercial vehicle inspection station along I-95 in Chatham County, north of Savannah.
The checkpoints will check for proper licensing, DOT helmets, alcohol usage, valid tags, as well the general operating condition of the motorcycle.
Lt. Col. McDonough claims that for the average operator with the proper license and equipment the delay should take about one minute.
Additional checkpoints will be conducted in the spring and fall of 2011. Checkpoints are funded into 2012 as well.
NHTSA Implements
M o t o r c y c l e - O n l y
Checkpoints Nationwide
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has ignored congressional requests to halt or delay a plan to implement and fund motorcycle-only checkpoints nationwide. The first federally funded checkpoints, dubbed "roadside motorcycle safety checkpoints," will be launched by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, via a NHTSA grant to the Georgia State Patrol. NHTSA has implemented the checkpoint funding plan despite being asked by members of Congress not to fund the program until the merits were explained. NHTSA has requested applications from law enforcement agencies across the country to conduct "safety checks" that specifically target motorcyclists to pull aside for a lengthy inspection of their vehicle, equipment and paperwork. The New York State Police have been conducting motorcycle-only checkpoints since 2007, often targeting major motorcycle events such as Americade. Seeking a legal remedy to stop the constitutionally questionable roadblocks, Aid to Injured Motorcyclists
(A.I.M.) Attorney Mitchell Proner of NYC has filed a class action lawsuit against the NYSP and New York State on behalf of ABATE of New York and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM). Proner believes the Federal Court will agree that the stops are designed primarily for law enforcement purposes as opposed to public safety purposes. "Rather than promoting any legitimate public safety concern, the checkpoints are intended to harass and intimidate motorcyclists attempting to attend motorcycle events thereby depriving them of their First Amendment right to freedom of assembly as well as their Fourth,
Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, equal protection and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures."
If you talk to him tell him that my trip this summer will not include the state of GA and he might want to tell FL and SC also. After the Dragon I will be backtracking thru TN and then to Abalama and the rest of my trip. Safety check my *** liberal big brother bullshit
#14
03-05-2011 | 11:47 AM
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#16
03-05-2011 | 01:51 PM
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From: Deltona, FL
Yeah, but the people who own the mom and pop stores are the ones who voted the ****** in office in the first place. Maybe if they lose business they'll change their political leadership themselves.
#18
03-05-2011 | 03:38 PM
That is how my trip is planned, back roads, but these are the ones they are telling you about. Rerouted my trip to Chatanooga and thru AL to where I am going. One little jog thru GA for about 20 miles and gonna work out a way to avoid that. Will not let GA get any of my $.
#19
03-05-2011 | 03:49 PM
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From: USA
April 10, 2009
Obama nominates new head of NHTSA
President Obama has nominated long-time safety advocate Charles A. Hurley to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Hurley comes from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), where he has been CEO since 2005.
All of you Obama voters are responsible.
Obama nominates new head of NHTSA
President Obama has nominated long-time safety advocate Charles A. Hurley to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Hurley comes from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), where he has been CEO since 2005.
All of you Obama voters are responsible.
