Vroom Vroom

Look both ways!

 

The bike path is no longer a bike path.

It's a super-highway for unadulterated freaks and their flying machines!

 

There are motorized vehicles zooming along carelessly, oblivious to the rest of the world, and they range from scooters to wheelchairs, to four-wheel chairs and idiotically small cars.

 

None of them should be allowed on bike paths, I say.

 

Fix it. Give out a ticket every once in a while to these bike path maniacs. Our laws can't possibly be so shoddy as to legally permit these motorized vehicles on bike paths!

 

For cyclists of all ages, they pose a serious risk. All of them seem determined to travel at breakneck speed, sure to cause serious injury to an adult cyclist, child cyclist, or dog being walked, on or near the bike path.

 

I understand mobility issues, but you’re not the only person on this planet, you’re the only oblivious person on this planet. You should care about keeping other people safe.

 

I would insist there is a better solution, only now these motorized vehicles have begun invading stores.

Believe you me, they're giving drive-thru a whole new meaning.

 

Too many motorists ignore pedestrian crossings to think they’ll work in the dairy section.

 

Maybe we can put bells around the necks of these senior zoomers. Better still, confiscate their blooming buggies.

Soon, police federations are going to be pushing to have the Highway Code expanded to supermarkets. Then what? A police chase through fresh produce?

 

You just don’t know when you are going to come face-to-face with a speeding senior seated on a turbocharged wheelchair. What chance does a grocery cart have?

 

Police; legislators; fix it! Parameters, please. What's legal and what's not, and do the laws make sense and keep everyone safe?

It’s most unnerving to someone who’s always enjoyed going to the grocery store without having to contemplate the possibility of being run over in front of the frozen yogurt.

 

Maybe I’m overreacting.

 

Deep breath.

 

I’m sure I’ll feel better about the whole thing once they get traffic lights installed at the ends of the aisles.