Thanks, Jo for the opening. As an avid bicyclist I have been disappointed
with a large number of fellow riders who have been riding against traffic
in the new bike lanes on Sixth Street in Moscow. It's as if once a person
climbs onto a bike they forget to stay on the right side of the road. I
have made two complaints in as many weeks to the Moscow PD: once to the
dispatcher, and once to a patrol officer (who, by the way, told me to
report it to the campus police station as if the campus station were a
separate law enforcement agency... the officer told me this as we both
watched another bicyclist ride by on the wrong side of the road).
This problem is particularly prevalent along Sixth Street between the SUB
and the UI power plant where the lane is striped only on one side. I have
stopped to talk to a few bicyclists who ride on the wrong side of the road,
and many of them just seem clueless. It would be a welcome sight to see
Moscow Bike Officers out doing some education work along that road, and
within the police department.
Tom