The dedicated bicycle paths on Avenue B and Camden Street are overengineered and a waste of taxpayer money.
It would be a better use of tax money to just paint a stripe and create a bicycle path where there is room to do so without all the barriers.
A law needs to be passed to allow bicycling on sidewalks only where there is no room for a bicycle to safely ride on a street. A good example would be along Basse Road around the Quarry Market.
Bicycling on sidewalks in residential neighborhoods would remain restricted.
Even though cyclists are a very small portion of our population, we want them to be safe.
The long-term city bicycle plan estimates that up to $1.4 billion would come from the city, with federal funding up to $5.8 billion. The federal government, which is looking at a $40 trillion debt, and our city, which is looking at a $158 million budget deficit, both must feel bicycles should take priority over needed social services.
I feel those expenditures should be reconsidered to best serve our residents in need. If the federal money keeps coming and we can balance our budget, we should create lanes with paint, no curbs, islands or any structures that can cause biker accidents, inconvenience traffic flow and impede business needs.
Our city planners should look at the ridiculous overkill of bicycle lanes on Avenue B, North Alamo Street and McCullough Avenue.
They should cancel the proposed Market Street and Commerce Street lanes that would greatly inconvenience businesses and traffic flow on these important east-west corridors.
Bicycle lanes are fine on streets where traffic flow is not inconvenienced and business needs are met.
Bill Lyons, a downtown business owner
The midterms are almost upon us, and it appears we are looking at common sense vs. communism.
Politicians have adopted a far-left socialist platform that includes U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
They have caused all kinds of disruption in the old Democratic machine.
It turns out some of the worst-run cities in America are deep blue, run by Democrat single-party rule for decades. San Francisco is No. 1.
Diesel in California is averaging $7.91 per gallon, and regular gas is averaging $5.89.
Why would anyone vote for more of that on a national level?