Dear editor,

Of all the dumb traffic schemes I have seen in this town over the last 20-odd years, lowering the speed limit to 40km/h for a stretch of Piercy Avenue (17th to 26th street) and painting bicycle logos on the pavement wins top prize!

I drive and also cycle on that section of Piercy all the time. It鈥檚 smooth, super wide and hardly any cars park on that street given the oversize lots on both sides of the street. Every time the luminaries in the roads department restrict, hamper or outright ban some traffic from one street it just moves it to another street increasing that street鈥檚 traffic load. In the future, instead of using Piercy I will simply drive down Tull, a narrower, bumpy street with parked cars on both sides and even one or two basketball hoops along the way鈥� at a legal 50 km/h.

Good job, Courtenay!

Either somebody 鈥渋mportant鈥� lives on Piercy or the roads department simply wanted to increase the level of animosity the majority of drivers feel against cyclists and cycling in general because of the number of ill-conceived or badly executed cycling projects/measures implemented in this town.

Francois Lepine,

Courtenay