It's one thing if you are riding your bike as a pedestrian: i.e. riding on the sidewalk or against the flow of traffic. Then the safe thing to to is for you get off and push your bike across the cross walk. If, however, you are riding your bike like a motor vehicle (which is legal), then you have rights which include a full vehicle lane, the right to turn left using the left turn lane, and the right to ride through a green light like an automobile. So, if you are riding with the flow of traffic in a lane, then you don't need to get off and cross walking in a cross walk. I wish more automobile drivers understood that bicycles have a right to the road as well. Far too many try to share my lane or cut by me with mere inches of clearance. (State law says you need to give a bicycle rider at least three feet of clearance.) Hint to drivers: if I can reach out and touch your car when you're passing me, you aren't giving me the space required by law. That said, I'm also glad this new law did not pass. If bikes are going to get the same rights as motor vehicles (as I outlined above), then they should have the same restrictions as motor vehicles.

"That's the justice system for ya! " Well, technically this is the legislative branch, not the judicial branch, so this isn't the justice system, it's the legislative system. :)

No kidding. Why are we wasting money on this, especially in a year where we are firing our educators because we don't have the money!!

We are firing TEACHERS because we don't have enough money to pay them, and yet we have money to re-do a bunch of signs so they include the word "State"? This is mind blowing. We are part of as serious of a budget crisis as this state has seen in decades, and we're wasting money on signs for liquor stores and firing teachers? This is insane!

Frankly I don't care about college sports (or professional sports either, for that matter), so it is easy for me to say take the money from the sports programs. However I also recognize that college coaches make big money because sports programs can bring in big money (as well as awareness) for the schools. So saying cut money from sports programs isn't simply as easy as that. These funding issues don't have easy cut and dried solutions. (Or they would have already been thought of and implemented.)

10% because funding from the State has gone down, because the revenue from their endowments went down when the stock market crashed, and because the cost of doing business continues to climb. Prices on all kinds of things they buy (gas, office supplies, etc.) have gone up for them just like they have for the rest of us. Tuition is only a small part of where universities get their money, but it is one they have some degree of control over. When other funding sources run dry for a season, one of the only places they can make that up is in tuition hikes. Not saying that I like it (though I graduated several years ago, so the current prices don't affect me much), but I recognize why it happens.