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April 23: Vancouver Street already good for bikes

Re: “No need to disrupt Vancouver Street,” letter, April 20. I am in complete agreement with the couple who wrote this letter. I am 70 years old and a cyclist.

Re: “No need to disrupt Vancouver Street,” 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’m 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 Vancouver Street.

It is a wide road, there’s 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’ 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’s 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