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 distinct and higher method.
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. Nevertheless, keep off the sidewalk, placed on a helmet and put your cellphone away. Extra importantly, mother and father ought to stop 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 turn out to be 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 day by day and have seen the bike lanes being put in on main streets right here. I’ve but to see a bike owner utilizing the lanes within the morning, at midday or at night time.
L.A. has many locations that cyclists can get pleasure from safely. However regardless of our climate, L.A. will not be 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, but it surely 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 street blocking site visitors, so that may be unsafe.”
Cervantes ought to know, as all of us ought to, that the California Car Code provides cyclists the identical rights and duties as drivers on the street. Bicycles are site visitors. It has been that method for the reason that reputation of the horseless carriage got here into battle with the bike within the nineteenth century.
How usually will 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 competition? When can we make our democracy a extra caring and thoughtful place once more?
James Severtson, Reseda
