Dear Commissioner Adams,

Bike boulevards, streets in which car and truck traffic is greatly reduced or absent, is a great idea.

The current system of squeezing bike lanes between the traffic lane and a row of parked cars on busy streets such as Broadway and NE Glisan doesn't work. These bike lanes are death tunnels in which a car door opened carelessly completely blocks the entire bike lane.

A car door was opened in front of me on NE Glisan and I slammed directly into it which flung my bike and me into the traffic lane. My bike was run over and crushed by the same car that missed my head by about 6 inches.

Just one month prior, a motorist cut a quick right hand turn across the bike lane on NE Broadway without signaling or even braking. I slammed on the brakes and luckily wasn't moving very quickly when I crashed into the back corner of the car's trunk.

Bike lanes on busy streets are disasters and fatalities waiting to happen as my experiences have painfully taught me time and time again. The only solution is to create bike boulevards that run parallel to the main streets like Broadway and Glisan, which have little or no car and truck traffic.

Thanks,
Dave Kaplowe