Your editorial was so bad that I had to respond to it.

Your glass is not half empty but completely empty. The examples you gave were pathetic.

I commute to work every day on my bicycle. I ride a small portion of my commute on the sidewalk to stay out of the heavy traffic for two blocks so that I can reach the trail I use without slowing traffic.

Every day that I pull up to the crosswalk and wait for it to give me my walk signal. Every day some driver, with a license, pulls through the crosswalk blocking it off and never even looking my way to allow me to cross with the light. I have to work my way around behind them.

The license thing is working so well for drivers I can see why you would want those of us on bicycles to get them. I hate driving to work because there are so many terrible drivers in the Seattle area and most of them have a license.

There are a lot of bikers that don't blow red lights, who stop at stop signs, who obey the rules of the road. But you only notice that small group of bozo's that are an embarrassment to all us, just as you ignore the bozo's who do dumb things every day in their cars, cutting off fellow drivers, riding your butt cause they think you should be going faster, voting you number one when you have the nerve to blow your horn at them for something stupid that they did in front of you causing you to hit your brake so as not to hit them.

Try being a part of the solution for once instead of part of the problem.

Glenn Hinrichsen

Seattle