Regarding the letter to the editor (Bike riders should be required to carry insurance) appearing in the June 12 edition of the Kirkland Reporter, I believe both the letter writer and the editor have mischaracterized the intent of the SB1541.

Unless there has been a more recent revision of the legislation than that posted on the Washington State website, the subject law very specifically refers only to “street legal motorcycles.”

There is no mention of bicycles; and, the legislation only allows motorcycle operators to proceed through a red light “that is controlled by a triggered traffic control signal using a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size of the street legal motorcycle” to proceed through the intersection if, after coming to a full and complete stop at the intersection, the signal fails to operate after one cycle of the traffic signal.

Mike Main, Kirkland