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Show "DIKE" POLICENRN BADLY NEEDED MaKe Every Rider Pay a License and Limit Speed to Five Miles an Hour, Is This Man's Suggestion. To The Telegram. In your issue of the 21st you had an' article referring to the ever-present evil, the "bicycle scorcher," and the many narrow escapes children and older people have from this fiend. The average rider feels just as you do, and will gladly help to eliminate the scorcher; but the plan you suggest of enlarging the restricted district and keeping all riders off the sidewalks is unjust and unnecessary. A great majority of the present-day riders ride not for pleasure, but for business. Hundreds of working men depend on the wheel as a means of going go-ing to and coming from work; it saves delays and it saves car fares a considerable con-siderable item to working men. In the .outlying districts it is impossible to ride a wheel in the streets, except during dur-ing a very small part of the summer, and if you shut them off the sidewalks, many working men will have to abandon aban-don their wheels. I would suggest that an ordinance be passed licensing every wheel in the city, charging $1 a year for a license tag, and making it a misdemeanor to ride without the tag. Then pass a. law regulating the speed to, say five miles an hour, and make conviction punishable punish-able by a fine, a second conviction by imprisonment. Then out of the fund so collected, appoint and pay a rider policeman whose duty it shall be to patrol the usual bicycle paths and arrest ar-rest each and every offender, and you will put a quietus on Mr. Scorcher and at the same not do an injustice to decent de-cent wheelmen. Very truly, A RIDEB. Salt Lake City, Feb. 23. 1907. |