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Letters to the Editor

BICYCLES

As a form of transportation, it's not going to go away
I am reminded by co-workers nearly every day that bicycles do not belong on the road. That's kind of funny since a lot of the roads they are driving their cars across were built with bicycles in mind. I am admonished about once a week by motorists, "That's what sidewalks are for!" as they zoom past me on their gas-guzzlers. If they ever even walked on those sidewalks, they would know that they are barely suitable for walking, and where they exist at all in our fair city, are not designed for, safe for or useful for bicyclists.

Would these furious, impatient drivers be hostile and threatening to me, a 125-pound 55-year-old woman in the supermarket? Does driving a dangerous weapon somehow make them above the laws of common sense and civility?

Bicycling as transportation is not going to go away.