Time to get bikes off the road

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Manhattan: It’s not safe for cyclists in this city, and it never will be. A thousand miles of protected bike lanes wouldn’t have prevented the tragic death of Devra Freelander. She was hit going through an intersection. The city has narrowed our already attenuated streets and slowed traffic to a crawl to accommodate cycling and it hasn’t made pedestrians, drivers or cyclists any safer. Traffic fatalities are on the rise again and accidents resulting in injuries have skyrocketed.

Cars are more dangerous than bikes, but adding bicyclists to the mix, many of whom refuse to obey traffic laws, has compounded the hazard with new and unpredictable threats.

The bike experiment has failed. It’s high time we cut our losses, remove the lanes, and throw Citi Bike in the dustbin of history where it belongs. Gary Taustine

Brooklyn: New York City biking is lawless. Bicyclists don’t have to have a license, don’t have to pass a written or road test. They ride against the traffic on the sidewalks, blow traffic lights, threaten pedestrians, and engender accidents that result in injury and death. Why aren’t cyclists regulated the same as cars and trucks? They share the same streets. They should be held to the same standards and censured the same when they violate the laws. The lives saved would include their own.

Schellie Hagan

Handy trick

Brooklyn: We rinse out recyclable plastic since food spoils recycling. So, how do you clean out the peanut butter that sticks to the inside of the jar? My mom showed me a trick she learned from her mom: Put crushed eggshells in the jar with water and a squirt of vinegar and shake it up! One or two days later, strain the mixture and you can use the same eggshells again to dissolve PB in at least one more jar! Now I can use the jar to store leftovers or just recycle and not have PB mold mess up recycling plastic! I’ve known mom about 64 years, but I did not know she knew that about the cleaning power of eggshells!

Robert Del Rosso

Proper nomenclature

Union Beach, N.J.: Someone on your staff should know that there are no goalies in soccer. Goalies play hockey, keepers play soccer. Come on people. This is the World Cup and that headline was clueless. Katherine Howard

Disgraceful Mets

Rochdale Village: To disheartened fan and Voicer Harvey Wielstein: The Metsies were worse in ’06 and ’07. The Wilpons are responsible for

the small town mentality of cheapness pervading the team (notice how Keith and Ronny are rarely on together?). I’m a Met, not Bomber fan, and the Yankees are as opposite a franchise as is humanly and physically possible: the caliber of player, the front office, their minor league teams, their stadium….

Saul Rothenberg

Leave politics out of it

Danbury, Conn.: I was ready to pull the trigger and give up my subscription to the Daily News when you removed Mike Lupica’s columns from your sports pages several months ago. Now that he’s back and yet still unable to refrain from making his columns as much about politics as sports, I’m thinking of pulling the trigger again. We know where you stand, Mike. Just give us sports. Bob Bergin

Circus Trump

Glendale: To Voicer David Jaffe: When the cretin-inchief went to North Korea, that had nothing to do with appeasement. He’s too incompetent to even mimic Neville Chamberlain. He simply wanted to be the ringmaster of yet another media circus he knew he’d be creating. That’s how he rolls. We need to impeach him and remove him from office, sending him back to reality TV, his one area of expertise.

Peter Richards

Partisan love

Somerset, N.J.: Voicers Jeff and Joan Ganeles’ Fourth of July letter was touching. I hope they agree on everything they discuss. They note “cruelty at the border” but failed to mention previous administrations’ issues like Obama’s cages or ACLU clowns telling people to say “asylum” when asked why they left their country and didn’t seek asylum in Mexico as per international convention. They note Republican “puppet judges” as if Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg and Breyer are models of non-partisanship and their nominators (Clinton and Obama) were unpolitical. They note rising health-care costs, which I guess mysteriously skyrocketed only since 2017 while eight years of Obama and his magical Obamacare did nothing but exacerbate the issues as to healthcare costs. Peter Provenzale

In agreement

Staten Island: Good answer from Voicer Judith Levine about military service and the presidency. I’d like to add the fact that someone else had to risk their life and serve this great nation in Trump’s place, as many in my family have done over the years. May God bless and protect all those who serve this country.

Catherine Gorman

Sleepyhead

Brooklyn: So Mayor de Blasio shows up late to a TV interview and this time blames his alarm clock, which can only mean one thing: If elected president in 2020, there’s a very good chance our always tardy mayor won’t show until 2024! Johnny T. Sollitto

Missing: de Blasio

Whitestone: I have one question for Mayor de Bozo: Where were you for the funeral of Detective Luis Alvarez? I guess it was more important for you to do other things instead of attending the funeral for a hero. Alvarez had your back but you fail to have his. Once again the mayor fails. Rest in peace my brother detective.

Eugene O’Brien

This is America

Yonkers: As an American citizen, I feel insulted, but not surprised, that this newspaper dedicated its July 3 front page to illegals in a detention center, and pages four and five to articles about people who shouldn’t even be here, but then on page 10 published a smaller article on Detective Luis Alvarez, who lost his life because of 9/11 and fought hard until the end

/SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES for benefits for those who are victims of that horrible day. America and Americans should be the number one priority. The rest should go back to wherever they came from. Isora Pineda

Showtime in DC

Brooklyn: The egotist-inchief had to have his splashy July Fourth event, at any price. The White House won’t admit the exact total, but federal agencies were bled irreplaceable funds to pay for it all. The National Park Service alone lost $2.5 million it can ill afford. My husband is a park employee and knows first hand the diminishing funding parks get. Trump’s donor friends haven’t pledged a dime to cover the event’s cost, yet still get VIP tickets for the show. Hmmm. To paraphrase an old saying, “Millions for my ego, not a penny of it donated!” July Fourth is supposed to celebrate America’s independence from a tyrannical overlord. Seems we didn’t escape after all! Eileen Hanley

You’re welcome

Manhattan: My daughter, grandsons and I would like to thank you for the tickets to “The Gazillion Bubble Show.” We had wonderful seats and enjoyed every minute of the entertaining program.

Marilyn Levin