{"id":433257,"date":"2026-08-15T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:00:13","slug":"comment-in-story-about-bike-lanes-reflected-both-sexism-and-ageism-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433257\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment in story about bike lanes reflected both sexism and ageism \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cReport: Bike lanes marred by S.D. traffic, lane gaps\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/05\/san-diegos-bike-lane-network-marred-by-traffic-clogged-streets-connection-gaps-sdsu-report-finds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 6<\/a>): This article quoted a well-meaning concern: \u201cIt\u2019s more like, can an average child or a 70-year-old woman actually ride there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I know women riders who are 70 years or older who take offense to this sexist and ageist comment.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a question of free speech. It is a matter of respect. This is not the 1950s. Writers and editors and everyone else ought to know better.<\/p>\n<p>My applause is directed to San Diego State University students in the School of Public Affairs who, in working with BikeSD, completed this important report.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bonnie M. Bekken, Normal Heights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cReport: Bike lanes marred by S.D. traffic, lane gaps\u201d (Aug. 6): This article quoted a well-meaning concern:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-433257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}