What has happened to proper cycling education?
If they're not wearing a helmet, they're biking towards traffic (proper lane, perhaps, but wrong side of the road), or giving hand signals so low as to be invisible to other vehicles on the road. How many times do we see cyclists hitting the pedestrian crosswalk button and not walking their bike across (and becoming a pedestrian) but riding it (and remaining, technically, as a vehicle)?
With electric scooters gradually picking up in town there is a similar problem forming.
I'm speaking as another cyclist and scooterist, as I've nearly had head-on collisions with these invincibles riding on the wrong side of the road, down the bike lane.
And even worse, everyday I watch parents teaching their kids that doing all these things are acceptable.
I just hope by writing about this, that maybe, just maybe, the city will begin enforcing safe, proper driving in our electric scooterists and cyclists locally.
Rachel Morgan
Prince George
