Dancing with the diesels

Editor,

Are we “dancing with the diesels?” I mean the large diesel-powered behemoths also called buses and trucks. I recently was appraised of the fact that Humboldt St. here in San Mateo is a truck route. Delaware Street is a bus route. Yet we’re still humming and buzzing about keeping the ill-conceived “Bike Lanes” in place. They were a mistake in the first event, so even though we spend yet more cash removing this dangerous mistake, I think it has to be done. The solution I had put forth way back before the mistake was made, was to encourage the bikes/scooters/skaters to utilize the side streets and leave the main drags with their higher speed differentials, between bikes and cars, for the cars/trucks/buses. I wanted us to think about creating one-way streets on the narrow ones and to remove the “bicycle demolition devices” (also known as “traffic calming bulbouts”). They were yet another bad idea.