FEEDBACK: Vote on the bike lane

To the editor:

Why not have the people vote on the bike lane in lieu of having the council decide everyone’s wishes?

The entire time that lane was shut down, there were precious few people riding bikes, especially during the rush hour.  I saw the picture of three bikes and how many cars?  I would be interested to know how many days someone had to wait to even get a picture of the three riders.

Show me a 100 or so and I will be behind a bike lane.  So silly and a huge waste of money in an already gridlocked city.

— Judy Carberry, Charleston, S.C.

EDITOR’S COMMENT:  A direct vote is always an alternative, but it undercuts the tenets of representative democracy.

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