Call (888) 786-7243The bicycle bellyaching is making me crazy. I don’t mean the bicyclists. They take up all of three feet on the road, bless their souls. I mean the drivers who are complaining about them.
There are so many bicyclists who keep their cycles in self storage units over the winter. You know what I’d like to see? Car owners who put their vehicles in storage for the summer. Why can’t our roads change seasonally? Storing cars over the summer could bring many benefits to Denver. Let me list them:
- Summer construction traffic jams would dwindle — bicycles take up far less space than cars and trucks do.
- A road full of bicycles could be cleared much more easily and quickly than a street jammed with cars can, when emergency vehicles need to get through.
- Bicycles do not produce air pollution to reduce Denver’s summer air quality.
- We would all be much more physically fit.
- Denver would develop a reputation as a pedestrian-friendly city.
- Denver would develop an even stronger reputation for being a family-friendly city — kids love bicycles.
- Denver’s economy would be stimulated, as people take the money they used to spend on gas and instead spend it on goods and services.
Let’s stop bickering and solve this problem the way our kindergartners do — we’ll take turns: bicycles in the summer, cars in the winter. What do you think, Denver?