Riding a bicycle is very useful. But people don't always take a bicycle for the following reasons. One of the reasons is the absence of bicycle lanes. Let's look an adcantages and disadvantages of riding a bicycle and building bike lanes. The most important advantage is more simplier and safer riding for bikers around the city. The disadvantage is that there isn't enough place for bike lanes in the city. So, it will be necessary to allocate part of road or pavement. As a result, there will be no place for pedestrians and road capacity will be reduced. Besides, many pedestrians ignore road signs and go along the bike lanes. This impedes bike traffic and increases the probability of accidents. In addition, a lot of money is required for building of bike lanes since it is necessary to put asphalt, draw markings and place road signs. I believe that in future the bike lanes will be an integral part of roads and a bicycle will become an important part of our life.
Back to school. The first of September was Friday. Friday...the best day of the week! The day when everybody begins to think about coming weekend. And that was the first day of the new school year. Fantastic! A good beginning makes a good ending. The weather was fairly good. It was rather warm, the sun was shining brightly but there were some clouds in the sky. Olga got up early as she wanted to see her friends very much and came to school at 7.45. But she wasn't the first one to come. Some of her classmates were already waiting for the others in the school yard. She met all her friends there. They spoke about their summer holidays. Everyone was glad to come back to school and meet friends. Then they went to the classrooms. Their teachers were also in a very good mood as the pupils were eager to learn something new and behaved very well. They had four classes. After the classes Olga and her friends went to the nearest cinema. It didn't matter what film was on, they just didn't want to go home and wanted to spend time together. But still the film was interesting and they liked the film. After the film they went to a cafe and had some ice-cream. Everybody liked the day and hoped that the coming school year would be as pleasant as the first day of it!
