Banning Road Bikes on Roads in Iowa

Via Joel Patenaude: A "safety" group wants to ban bikes from Iowa's rural roads.

You can see how this went down: More people are enjoying the sport of biking, which leads to more frustrated drivers of gasoline powered entitlement machines. They can't merely say "we don't like to have to slow down for bicycles", so they raise it as a safety concern and throw in a bogus conflict with agricultural interests for good measure.

Here is a way to deal with safety concerns: Put governors on all cars that keep them at 65 mph. Better yet, connect the governors to an electronic system that keeps them at 55 on rural roads, and automatically slows them to 45 when they approach farm machinery, bikes, or road construction.