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# Carefree days on a bike long gone
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/carefree-days-on-a-bike-long-gone-editor/
- Published: 2007-11-26T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:06:05.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By M. L. Duncan Santa Monica*

(Re: “Damn the bikes in Santa Monica,” Nov. 21) The days of “riding a bicycle.... supposed to be fun and carefree... freedom...” (Tittinger) is a dreamer. Those days are gone, gone, gone due to the heavy traffic in Southern California.

I, as a pedestrian, have been hit twice, both times by uninsured motorists, both times the light was in my favor. I have been knocked down by a bicyclist while walking on the sidewalk. Pedestrians are also concerned about the environment.

Get off the kick that bicyclists are special, entitled. This is 2007, get with it!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 26, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)