Re: “The ride in which everyone wins,” Sept. 20.
I live on the race route of this year’s Tour de Victoria. I did not look forward to the event any more than I do the regular crowd of flame-suit clad Tour de Wannabes who screech through my neighbourhood on an all-too-regular basis.
I bicycled throughout university until a car door opened and I almost became roadkill. I think all Canadian cities should provide safe bicycle routes.
What we don’t need is more racers who are using our city and neighbourhoods as an environment to train for competition. I have seen garbage tossed into parks, rules of the road blatantly ignored and, in one horrifying instance, my husband still bandaged from eye surgery, threatened and then hit by a cyclist who was forced to stop at an intersection because our vehicle was making a right turn. Do not cross a cyclist in training.
The Ryders Cycling Society should make sure it includes in its mandate programs that teach cyclists how to play nicely with others.
Mary Fox
Victoria
