On the Trail

On The Trail 6 Earl Plato

Stop! Stop means stop! C’mon man! You mean I have to slow down and stop at each place on the Friendship Trail where there’s a STOP sign? Yes! That’s right! In my car we drove yesterday slowly down Kraft Road south off Dominion Road. We wanted to park on the shoulder just past the trail and hike. In a flash a bicyclist raced past us. No stop at the Stop sign posted on the trail. The man in his late twenties could have been seriously hurt or even killed. I truly had no time to react and hit the brakes. We were shocked to say the least. What a stupid act. Treed on both sides in this area he couldn’t have seen me approaching. All the more reason to slow down and stop. Tom Wilby called last Saturday and he reinforced the point above. Unfriendly cyclists, inliners and yes even runners in the Windmill Point and Stonemill crossings are continually breaking the law, so Tom said. At whose expense? Would you like to have a bicyclist crash into the side of your car? Not your fault, so you say. A real friendly person respects others. This is the Friendship Trail and users on wheels or on foot need to respect those Stop signs at each road intersection. Be friendly Trail users.
STOP means STOP and looking both ways before moving on across an intersection is a common sense act. After our close encounter with the “not-so-smart” cyclist we walked the new trail from Kraft to Edgemere in a circle route. What a beautiful little section of the Trail. You are walking through a woods on both sides. I am a stump lover. There’s a neat one on the west side of the trail. Again octegenarian mother-in-law felt I walked too slowly and not far enough! Hey she’s a power walker I am just a nature walker. The Trail serves all kinds of walkers.
Use the Friendship Trail. Use it continually. Use it safely!