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Bicycles and the Law: The Case of California

by Alan Wachtel

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY JOURNAL 105–124 (May 1995)

University of California, Davis, Environmental Law Society

Alan Wachtel is Government Relations Director of the California Association of Bicycling Organizations and vice chair of the California Bicycle Advisory Committee, which reports to the Department of Transportation. As a consultant, he has helped develop bicycle plans for the cities of Berkeley and San Francisco. He is also an Effective Cycling instructor certified by the League of American Bicyclists. The character of a judge was named for him on the television program “Hill Street Blues.” He lives in Palo Alto, a city renowned for its bicycling activities.