To the editor: As a author and editor, Shelby Grad has been an distinctive asset for the Los Angeles Occasions 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 unique 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 open air 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, mother and father ought to give up shopping for their children (particularly youthful ones) highly effective bikes that may exceed 25 mph.
I’m all for sharing the street, however e-bikes have develop into a menace for pedestrians, pets and total 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 night time.
L.A. has many locations that cyclists can take pleasure in safely. However regardless of our climate, L.A. just isn’t a bike-riding city. The automotive is king.
Paul Burns, Granada Hills
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To the editor: This may increasingly seem to be a petty response to an article in The Occasions, nevertheless it displays how even educated regulation enforcement officers are unaware of guidelines generally. (“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 street blocking visitors, so that may be unsafe.”
Cervantes ought to know, as all of us ought to, that the California Car Code offers cyclists the identical rights and tasks as drivers on the street. 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 usually can we assume the alternative? How usually are we not affected person sufficient to worth one other individual’s rights? How usually does it result in rivalry? When can we make our democracy a extra caring and thoughtful place once more?
James Severtson, Reseda
