To the editor: As a author and editor, Shelby Grad has been an distinctive asset for the Los Angeles Instances for fairly a very long time. I used to be thrilled to see his byline and read his essay about how riding an electric bike has enabled him to see Southern California, New York Metropolis and Washington in a distinct and higher means.
Now I solely want that extra e-bike riders had the category and concern for his or her fellow man that Grad does.
Please, cyclists, benefit from the outside and all the opposite positives that include having an e-bike. Nonetheless, keep off the sidewalk, placed on a helmet and put your telephone away. Extra importantly, dad and mom ought to stop shopping for their children (particularly youthful ones) highly effective bikes that may exceed 25 mph.
I’m all for sharing the highway, however e-bikes have develop into a menace for pedestrians, pets and general public security.
John Standiford, Cypress
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To the editor: I journey across the San Fernando Valley every day and have seen the bike lanes being put in on main streets right here. I’ve but to see a bicycle owner utilizing the lanes within the morning, at midday or at evening.
L.A. has many locations that cyclists can get pleasure from safely. However regardless of our climate, L.A. isn’t a bike-riding city. The automotive is king.
Paul Burns, Granada Hills
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To the editor: This may increasingly look like a petty response to an article in The Instances, nevertheless it displays how even educated legislation enforcement officers are unaware of guidelines typically. (“Mercedes driver nearly hits bicyclists in confrontation posted on social media,” Jan. 6)
Los Angeles Police Division Officer Rosario Cervantes is quoted as saying, “There shouldn’t be that many bicycles on the highway blocking visitors, so that may be unsafe.”
Cervantes ought to know, as all of us ought to, that the California Automobile Code offers cyclists the identical rights and tasks as drivers on the highway. Bicycles are visitors. It has been that means because the recognition of the horseless carriage got here into battle with the bike within the nineteenth century.
How typically can we assume the other? How typically are we not affected person sufficient to worth one other particular person’s rights? How typically does it result in competition? When can we make our democracy a extra caring and thoughtful place once more?
James Severtson, Reseda
