Do all jackass drivers in this province get a driver’s permit, regardless of incompetency and stupidity? I drive, walk and use my bicycle in good weather. I’m 63, and I have seen/experienced my share of close calls and collisions. While cycling in a bike lane in Halifax (during daylight) over the Labour Day Weekend, a driver trailing my bike-riding wife drove parallel to me, when I was riding carefully on my bicycle. We’re side-by-side on Lower Water Street. Not quite certain what this clueless-looking driver wanted to do, I started braking. Sure enough, the driver cuts in front of me and crosses the bike lane into a parking lot. WTF? Another head-shaking close call, courtesy of a careless and crack-brained motorist.
—Pedal-pushing Geezer
This article appears in Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2019.
Glad you’re okay. Were you and the wife riding side by side? If so, maybe there isn’t room for cars to get around you and you should go single file.
Well I think bicycles riders and there bicycles sould be licenced most of them don’t respect or just don’t know or care about driving sencible.