Is it safe to cross the yellow line?

Editor:

I would like to suggest to the author of Cycling behaviour causes hazard, (The Creemore Echo, Sept. 19 letters, page 5) that passing any slow moving vehicle while going up a hill is never really that safe to begin with.

In order to pass without crossing the yellow line the letter writer’s vehicle would need to be narrower than the width of the lane minus however much space your dear reader will afford even a single cyclist passed safely.

As a cyclist myself I always try to take up enough room to cause following motorists to ask themselves whether the risk of crossing the yellow line to get around me is worth the seconds of time they will be saving.

Further, I’d ask the editor if it is now the policy of The Creemore Echo to publish reader submitted photos of regular folk behaving in ways that the photographer deems unsafe, inappropriate or perhaps even illegal?

Wayne Hansen,

Mulmur.