Learning Some Street Smarts

Urbana, Champaign and University of Illinois police have all recently been on details, especially in the campus area, to drive home the point that bicyclists have to follow almost all the same rules as motorists. Back-to-school time means area police have to haul out their own textbook for educating bicyclists who disregard the rules of the road: a pad of traffic tickets. Faced with the sting of a three-figure fine in both Champaign and Urbana, bicyclists usually need only one ticket to complete that education. read more