While riding my bicycle along McGillivray Boulevard last week, I noticed a police officer alongside the road with a speed gun. No doubt, this was in response to The Columbian’s article “Serious crashes on rise in Vancouver” (July 10).
In the past 10 years of riding, I can attest to the absolute disregard of the speed limit and requirement to come to a complete stop at stop signs by a majority of drivers. In fact, I have been hit once and almost hit another time by drivers who were not paying attention to what they were doing. Hopefully, the police response to the article is not a one-off.
If the Vancouver police are serious about ensuring that pedestrians and bike riders are safe, I expect to see their presence more frequently at intersections and on streets where speeding is the norm.
