Q: Why do bike riders get free utilization of the roads, after I, as a automotive proprietor, should pay for auto insurance coverage, auto registration charges, gasoline tax, and smog testing to make use of the roads? If a biker runs into my automotive, who pays for my injury? Bikers pay nothing, but they wish to share the street. They need to share the price. Once I was a child, we needed to get a sticker license and connect it to our bikes. Bike riders ought to get their bikes registered and insured. And the way a couple of yearly bike security examine? Accidents attributable to bikers ought to be identical to another accidents. Truthful is honest, after which they are going to have earned the suitable to make use of the roads that have been constructed for autos.
C. J. Fox
A: You could be shocked. Bicyclists contribute to street and transportation prices by means of gross sales taxes. That brings in extra money than a license charge.
Q: We heeded your recommendation and took Freeway 101 to L.A. final Thursday. It was large open, with little or no visitors (street work by means of King Metropolis and Santa Barbara brought about a complete of a couple of 20-minute delay). There have been no potholes, no dive bombers, no stress, and driving was brisk your complete means. There have been beautiful inexperienced hills and plenty of wildflowers.
I arrived with a really relaxed husband (he loved it a lot that he drove your complete means). There was no street rage, no berating different drivers.
Sooner or later, we’ll take 101, not Interstate 5.
Cheryl Klynn, Los Altos
A: Good to listen to.
Q: I-5 potholes are nothing in comparison with these on I-40 in Arizona! There are many wildflowers alongside I-5 this week, so it was fairly pleasurable, aside from building zones.
Leslie Lincoln, Sunnyvale
A: Mrs. Roadshow, take I-40 off our record of roads to journey.
Q: Once I go to the Belmont publish workplace on Masonic Approach, I invariably run right into a automotive with out a placard sitting within the handicap parking area. If I've time, I wait till they arrive out to their automotive and advise them of the errors of their methods. Generally they are saying they didn’t see the large blue check in entrance of their automotive or they only have a look at me like I'm loopy and ignore me. I as soon as nearly acquired in an altercation the place a man stated he was going to bash my head in, so I referred to as the Belmont police, however they stated it was a low precedence on their record of issues to do.
G. Schooley
A: I hear you. Handicap area scofflaws might sometime perceive the issue if they should use these areas legally, themselves.
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