Opinion

By Santa Ynez Valley Star Staff · Tue Mar 17 2020

Commentary

By Victoria Fiore

Contributed

On October 14, twice as many Fjord Drive community members showed up at a Solvang City Council meeting as compared to the number of bike riders who, by the way, do not live in that community.

We came to protest two bike lanes on either side of Fjord Drive that were painted on the road without notifying the people in the community or even asking us if we would like them.

After listening to arguments from both sides, the Solvang City Council voted to keep the bike lanes on Fjord Drive with the future possibility of extending them beyond the barriers at the end of the Fjord Drive.

The community members are not against bikes, but prefer that the bike path is on the other side of the river due to many reasons.