To the editor:

I can empathize with Mr. Lindstrom’s worry about signs (Bainbridge Review, March 16).

I, too, used to get irked when a driver seemed to come up to my bumper at a high rate of speed.

However having driven about 50 years now, I realize the speed limit signs to most people actually mean “average” speed limit. If you are on the 50 mph part of Highway 305 and follow a Subaru at 40 mph for 10 minutes, then you are owed an extra 10 mph somewhere later (for 10 minutes).

So don’t be mad at that speeder. You should be sad he had to drive so slowly behind a VW bus for so long.

JOHN CASHIN

Bainbridge Island