This letter from a reader was in the print edition of the Chicago Tribune last Monday (the 19th) in the "Voice of the People" section on the Editorial page.
Bicycles on Trails
"There have been many letters lately complaining about bicycles on roads and sidewalks, but nobody has mentioned forest preserve trails. I walk on trails occasionally and many times bicycles have come zooming by. Loose gravel and curvy trails are a recipe for disaster. I do not want to pay tax money for forest preserves that I cannot enjoy because they have been taken over by deranged yuppies on their devil's wheels. If bicycles are illegal on sidewalks, then they should be illegal on forest preserve trails."
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Wow. Could you imagine being that person? How much they must just hate life.
Sad.
A scary thought that we are sharing roads with drivers who feel that way, too.
The village had public meetings to extend the paved trail by my house and you should have heard my neighbors. If I remember correctly (it's been a few years now), they had decided that all of these people were going to be selling drugs and having sex behind their house -- oh yeah, and raping their daughter -- if the trail was built.
The funniest part was when the woman across the street came up to us at one of the meetings and said "We are so against it" and were shocked to find out we were for it.
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