Some time ago, I was about to turn right from Horton Street next to Webb’s Market to go up Pine Street. I looked down Pine Street and there were no cars coming. There were no pedestrians in the way but there were two cars parked in front of Webb’s Market. I started to make my […]
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S. Dyer: Bikers need to know the traffic laws
As a worker in downtown Lewiston, I travel the downtown streets constantly and park downtown every day. I usually park on Blake Street, between Pine and Walnut streets. When I leave for the day, I have to cross Pine Street, which now has a “dedicated bike lane,” to get down to Ash Street. Since Pine […]
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C. Soule: Initiative is wrongfully directed
This is in response to the Sun Journal story, “Petition seeks to overturn Lisbon Street bike lanes (March 27). If Darcy Reed had attended the Lewiston City Council meeting, as I did, she would have known that the council had agreed to take another look at the bicycle lane issue in a year to re-evaluate […]
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C. Kimball: A waste of paint
Why did Lewiston waste money on putting bicycle lanes on some of the streets? I know for a fact that the ones on Pine and Ash streets are hardly ever used properly by bicyclists. Bicyclists go the wrong way on one-way streets, use the sidewalks, zoom through parks with no consideration for others —it’s a […]