Sir: Seems like a good job to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Two great letters to the editor in The Chatham Voice Sept. 6 – one from Murray Holland about bikes parking between double doors of entrances and exits at coffee shops.
Yes, bikes in Chatham have been getting away with all sorts of things. No one seems to want to enforce their laws. I was just about to cross at the lights from the hospital at Grand Avenue when a bike came zooming along from the west on the sidewalk and he was texting or taking a call on a cell phone, so two hands were not on the handle bars.
The second letter from Susan Cornell, “Where did our sidewalks go?” Yes, where did they go? The bike trail on Grand from Keil Drive and on. Now instead of a real good sidewalk that was good for walkers, wheelchairs, etc., there no longer is one and we have to share it with bikes.
There’s a nice line in the middle, but which side belongs to whom?
Now it seems that the bus can’t pull off the road for the pick up and drop offs without holding up traffic.
The new benches are another big waste of money at bus shelters. Most are in the hot sun and in the open when it rains.
I understand there are 18 new benches and just another place for people to drop garbage that I have seen left around.
That is off my chest.
Ruth Draper
Chatham
