Editor,
In John Horgan’s dismissive column “Bike lanes generate an endless debate,” he describes an “obvious case of bike lane overkill” in the new north-south bike lanes on California Drive in Burlingame between Oak Grove Avenue and Broadway. He says the new lanes are “pretty much redundant” because there “are already parallel bike lanes just a few dozen yards away on Carolan Avenue.”
So bike lanes on California Drive are redundant but car lanes are not? After all, there are already parallel car lanes just a few dozen yards away ... on Carolan Avenue.
Look, I don’t even bike that much. I just find the double-standard striking.
Brian Morearty
San Carlos
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(2) comments
Thanks for your letter, Mr. Morearty, but the basis of your double-standard isn’t valid. Roads are meant to provide service to housing, commercial, and retail establishments, which require the convenience and efficiency of vehicles. Can you get bikes to deliver appliances, cartons of goods to sell, cars needing repair to garages, etc? How will folks lug 10 bags of groceries or a case of bottled water home efficiently if they must park a distance away?
Perhaps cyclists can perform an experiment and let us know how it turns out: stop using the streets in front of their house and stop delivery drivers from using the streets in front of their house. BTW, if we take your double-standard method comparison seriously, then let’s get rid of duplicate politicians and duplicate judges and have a single leader, say King Trump. You know, what Democrats have been fear-mongering about what Trump wants to be. Perhaps they’re on to something?
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