Be safer on roads

Sat., July 30, 2011

I have no problem with sharing the roads with bicyclists if they would stay to the right as far as possible. Roads that have paved shoulders should be used by the bicycles.

I was traveling up Argonne just south of Stoneman Road, and there were several cyclists all wearing yellow shirts, and all were single file riding right on the fog line and the shoulder there is about 8 feet wide. Why ride the line? I don’t want my right headlight or mirror to be broken any more than you would want your left arm to be broken or, worse yet, your body.

Everybody needs to think and be safer.

Mert Turner

Colbert

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