Traffic Laws Apply to Bicyclists When Riding on Roadways
Traffic Laws Apply to Bicyclists When Riding on Roadways
Editor,
This is in response to Robert Gilchrist Huenemann’s letter about the bicyclists on roadways (“Bicyclists Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Block Our Roads,” Feb. 13).
The bicyclists should read the DMV handbook. The laws that apply to them are in that book.
And if Mr. Huenemann thinks a rolling roadblock is fun, wait until he encounters a mess them at a four-way stop. A lot of bicyclists are good for running stop signs.
I guess that once a bicyclist reaches a certain age, laws no longer apply. Makes you wonder if they are teaching their children the same thing.
Nancy Lausten
Paicines
One Presidential Quiz Answer Needs to Be Corrected
Editor,
I really enjoyed the quiz on presidential trivia, which appeared Feb. 16 in the Free Lance. I just wanted to be a nit-picker on question No. 30, which asked which president used the middle initial “S.” The printed answer was Harry S. Truman.
There is no period after the “S” in President Harry S Truman’s name. That is because it does not actually stand for anything. When he was born, a disagreement arose over whether to make his middle name Shippe, after his paternal grandfather, or Solomon, after his maternal grandfather. The issue was never resolved and “S” was put on the birth certificate as a compromise.
The word initial implies that the “S” actually stands for something, which is not the case. “S” is President Truman’s whole middle name and not an initial of his middle name.
Kai Lai
Gilroy
