To the editor:

I couldn’t agree more with letter writer Roger Powell on the issue of too much waste in spending when it comes to bike boulevards.

As a biker myself and as one who recently sent in my bike survey to the city to make my thoughts known, I made my biggest case on the 21st Street corridor. And that is, in the last 40-plus years that we have lived just south of 23rd Street and have been traveling on or crossing 21st Street either for commuting to family members’ homes or simply my many walks and bike rides for travel and exercise, I have rarely seen any other bicyclist besides myself on that stretch. So the question is: Why all this expense for something that to some of us is obviously not an issue?

But again, I like and agree with Roger’s comment and assessment “Build it and we will pay for it.” So here’s another novel thought: If the issue is some occasional lunatic driving fast and recklessly down that street with a grade school right around one corner and a high school down toward the other end, what about simple police patrolling a little more often on a regular basis?

And with the fire trucks coming down through there from Stewart Avenue the last thing we all need is a gauntlet of roundabouts, islands and speed bumps all up and down to slow down firefighters and possibly damage their equipment.

Dave Affalter,

Lawrence