Editor:
I walk every day and am getting frustrated and scared by my frequent close encounters with cyclists. I am appealing to cyclists to consider that when you come speeding down the hill on a narrow road behind me, I cannot hear you. When you zip past me with two feet or less between us, you are not considering that I might choose that moment to stop and tie my shoe or search in my pack for my phone or anything else that would cause us to collide. If that were to happen I would likely be seriously injured – and so would you. If a car happens to be passing at that instant you would likely be thrown in its path.
So, please give pedestrians some space as you pass and alert them as you are approaching (not as you are already passing). I experience these close calls with cyclists of all ages, but many are with children. Parents, please educate your children. Get bells for their bicycles and teach them to use them. I do not want myself and/or your child to be injured when the observance of a simple safety rule could prevent it.
Yvonne Mounsey, Robert Creek
