Bike Path Etiquette According to Dear Abby
I don’t read Dear Abby. Honest. I remember my mother reading those letters to Dad every day. Linda spotted this column. I remember her saying it was all about bicycling but I never checked it out. This Abby column is all over the web the morning so it might as well be here–we do a fair amount of riding on bike paths.–corrie
Bike Path Etiquette According to Dear Abby
Dear Abby had a bunch of letters in her column one day this week about bike path etiquette. Don’t know if ol’ Abby is a cyclist or not, but she sure seemed interested in the way that bicyclists and walkers interact out on the trail.
Under the heading “Common Courtesy Conquers the Perils of the Bike Path,” Abby and a bunch of helpful letter-writers trade advice. One guy offers tips on how to notify walkers that they’re about to be passed (”When I’m on my bike, I always slow down and call out “On your left!” to warn the walker that I’m passing”) and another urges users of a shared path to have the slowest traffic keep to the right, so that there’s no interference between joggers, cyclists, walkers and roller-bladers.
It’s a nice switch from the normal advice to the love-lorn that dominates the column, and from now on, when I’m on my bike I’m definitely keeping an eye out for Dear Abby on the path. I think yeah, maybe she is cyclist. At least her hair-do would imply so.