Letter: Proposed bike-passing law seems foolish

A proposed bike-passing law requires that bikes on roadways be treated as automobiles. To pass a bike will require moving all the way into the oncoming lane, just like passing an automobile. Today I can justify moving my left tires a bit into the oncoming lane to pass a bike in a no-passing zone if there is no traffic coming. With the proposed law it becomes a true no-passing zone.

I do not imagine that many of us who are backed up behind a bike will be smiling.

As long as we are talking about bikes on the road, I really thought that the extension of the bike trail into Ely would eliminate the bikes on the road. The opposite is true. There is more road traffic now than before. Once in Ely, the current trail ends, it seems that the rider cannot turn around and ride back. Thus the bikes are back on the road again.

Tom Vavra

Ely