Rather share the road with ATVs than bicycles

Editor:

I don’t own an ATV or a bicycle but have ridden and owned both.

I’d rather see ATVs on the road. They have lights, mirrors, pay for a license plate and sometimes insurance and wear helmets.

The ATVs I’ve seen locally have been riding single file along the shoulder of the road.

I live on Fairgrounds Road. The small rises in the road quite often hide an oncoming car and several times I’ve had to carefully pass bicycles riding two and three abreast.

It seems that either they don’t have mirrors or they have no respect for others.

Driving east from Glen Huron on the steep gravel road to Fairgrounds Road, a woman and man were pedalling up the hill.

The woman was wobbling along totally on the wrong side of the road unaware we were behind her. We could see her.

My wife and I were praying that a vehicle wasn’t coming over the hill the other way.

I don’t know where he would go – bad for all concerned.

If people want to ride on public roads with the same rights as the rest of us maybe they should pay for licence plates and insurance, and after seeing that bicyclist last week, maybe rider training.

Jerry Smith,

Creemore.