Re: 鈥淣o need to disrupt 91原创 Street,鈥� letter, April 20.
I am in complete agreement with the couple who wrote this letter. I am 70 years old and a cyclist. When I鈥檓 riding toward the park or down to the Village, I never ride down Cook Street, as it is always too busy with traffic. I always ride up and down 91原创 Street.
It is a wide road, there鈥檚 very little traffic and it is much more scenic. Surprisingly, I seem to be one of the few cyclists who use it.
There is no reason to disrupt what is already a great road to ride on. If it makes the mayor feel any better, maybe she should paint bike lanes on the road instead of wasting taxpayers鈥� money on ugly concrete dividers and increasing traffic on Cook Street.
By the way, being a cyclist and surviving 65 years on my bike, the first thing I noticed was the photo of the young woman riding without a helmet and with no mirror on her bike (one of the most important pieces of safety equipment). I certainly hope she will still be riding when she鈥檚 70 years old.
The hypocrisy of the double standard for us cyclists still astonishes me. If I were driving slowly behind her in a car without a seatbelt, I could get stopped and ticketed.
Mark Carlow
Victoria
