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Thank-you, Gordon McIntyre, for your story on how a bicyclist was billed $3,752 by the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia after he was severely injured when hit by a car running a stop sign. The reason he had to pay was because his bicycle was not an insured vehicle, so he had to pay for repairs to the car?
And he is not the only bicyclist billed for damages to cars when car drivers are at fault — and people want bicycles instead of cars for health and environmental benefits. I did not realize that the BC government expects people to have comprehensive and liability bicycle insurance. Who knew?
Hopefully, tourists will be notified that if they are on bicycles, and get hit by a car, they can be on the hook both physically and financially.
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Stephen Wilson, Cold Lake, Alberta
Where is the other side of the story?
What a slanted news item. You have not spoken to other drivers? Your headline begs a bit more detail: Cyclists and pedestrians biggest loser? I believe the lawyers are the biggest losers of no-fault insurance. If it were not for their exorbitant fees and bleeding the system, we would not have had no-fault brought in at all.
I do hope you follow up and present the other side of the story, which a good investigative reporter should be able to obtain.
Jim Card, Qualicum Beach
Alzheimer’s fears exacerbated by family doctor shortage
Re: MaryLou Harrigan: Fifty-six per cent of Canadians are concerned about developing Alzheimer’s
This opinion article missed a very important point as to why 56 per cent of people fear getting Alzheimer’s. That being so many of us can’t even get a doctor for our standard illnesses let alone for this life-threatening disease? So many of us without doctors today are forced to deal with the inconsistency of receiving care only from clinics or worse, emergency wards — not necessarily the same doctor twice. Does the government really think that I am going to the emergency room and wait five to six or more hours in a hallway chair to “discuss” my self-diagnosed concerns regarding any type of mental dementia. Yeah, and it’s going to get 10 times worse in the near future because of the looks of the inaction by government.
And, remember, we are told we have the best system in the free world? Are we really so naive as to believe that?
Bill Davis, New Westminster