DRIVERS: Watch for humans

My concern is drivers who pay no attention or have any regard to pedestrians. I live on a busy street, Prairie Avenue, where it is five lanes. When I go out to get the Coeur d’Alene Press in the mornings, I wait for traffic to pass and all is clear before stepping into the bicycle lane to retrieve my newspaper.

Usually before I can retreat from my newspaper box, traffic is there again. I could reach out and touch these vehicles. Why can’t they get in the other lane? What if I fell into the lane of traffic?

In about 2014, we had our mailbox/newspaper box taken out by a distracted driver. He did knock on our door to confess & apologize. He also replaced it himself. The other morning while retrieving my newspaper, one driver that passed by was holding his/her cell phone up to their right ear and made some sort of gesture with the left hand. In this weather?

Please have respect for pedestrians, especially in this weather!

GERRI LAYSON

Coeur d’Alene