To make sure we get to the doctor at 5 we left at 4.  It should be a 12-minute ride, but traffic has become impossible lately.  We’re usually last-minute people, but I’ve been planning to get to Tel Aviv an hour earlier and if the traffic is okay we wind up sitting in a cafe and relaxing.  I like this way better, but I really don’t appreciate the motorcycles, bicycles, and other moving vehicles with 2 wheels moving in and out of the lanes.  I’m sure if you have driven in Tel Aviv you know what I mean.  No one escapes this fear.  Even pedestrians…  my friends have been run over – even my grandson was hit.

HERE ARE MY CYCLE TRAFFIC RULES:

1. Licensing of every 2 wheeled vehicle
2. traffic infractions enforced with tickets like automobiles
3. Extra fines for hit and run
4. mandatory insurance on all vehicles.
5. enforcement of helmets