There was a short report in the June 2 issue of the Boulder Daily Camera, concerning battery of a car driver by a bicyclist. Apparently, a male bicyclist punched a female car driver in downtown Boulder. A gentleman, right?
Rudeness seems to run rampant in the “Slick Spandexed Sylph Society.” I travel from Lafayette to Longmont once or twice per week, along 95th Street in Lafayette, which becomes Hover Road in Longmont. On Sundays, when I drive to my parish in Longmont, I witness packs of bicyclist pedaling two or three abreast in the bicycle lane, causing a road hazard. Last Sunday, a female bicyclist’s left elbow brushed my right-side mirror, since she had wobbled into the single northbound automobile lane. Had she taken a fall, it would have been – naturally! – my fault.
I patrolled as a law-enforcement volunteer in Arizona’s Maricopa County for fifteen years, and – yes – we enforced the single-file rule for bicyclists, not principally for their safety, but rather because we didn’t want the endless paperwork in 115-degree heat. Perhaps CSP, Boulder County and Lafayette and Longmont PDs should try to enforce safety rules for these people before someone is squashed.
J-P. A. Maldonado
Lafayette, Colorado
