Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the editorial cartoon published in Monday’s Daily Lobo.
Editor,
Applause for Monday’s editorial comic addressing bicycle courtesy.
I am so frustrated with idiots trying to two-wheel it through crowds of pedestrians on campus, seeing them block wheelchairs to speed up handicapped ramps, ride on sidewalks and generally act with no consideration for pedestrians.
I myself bike or walk to work every day, and ride for recreation on weekends; when I encounter another bicyclist using courtesy and obeying the rules of the road (yes, idiots, there are actual rules) I make it a point to commend and thank them.
When taking my lunchtime “constitutional” one day last week, walking the inner perimeter of campus, I was confronted by a young man on a bicycle coming toward me on an already too-narrow sidewalk, made even narrower by C-Lot parking patrons jutting their bumpers out into the walkway. He expected me to move off of the sidewalk. I told him to ride in the street, with the traffic, as is the law. He responded with a charming expletive. No surprise. Just remember, obnoxious bicyclists — there might be a ghost bike out there with your name on it some day.
Glinda Wyndorf
UNM faculty member
