Why is it socially acceptable to stop your truck or car in a bike lane when, in similar circumstances, it would be socially unacceptable to stop your truck or car on a conventional thoroughfare? And – I suppose this is my real question – how do we change that? Yesterday afternoon, as my children and I rode home from their school, we got pushed out into the danger of car traffic because somebody in a truck reckoned that "bike lane” means “loading zone.” If our community is serious about Vision Zero, about a scenario in which traffic violence in our city comes to an end, respecting the purpose of bike lanes has to be part of that.

Martin Elfert, Portland