Letters to the Editor
JWSexson
Published Letters: 2
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Most bike paths are parks
[Read the article: The bicycle thief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am an avid transportation cyclist, that is I do not drive and only travel by car when going with someone else.
That said, I think that bike paths are not transportation infrastructure but parks. I also think that parks are a great thing to spend federal gas taxes on. We could have a heck of a lot more parks in our cities and suburbs if less room were taken up by roadways, so it seems to be a perfectly decent way to spend the money to me.
At least where I live you generally can't get to work or return your video rentals by using bike paths, you use the same damn streets as the motorists do. We need to spend our infrastructure funds related to cycling and walking on the streets and sidewalks that connect where we live to where we work and shop (and making those places nearer to each other, more than anything else). Slow the motor vehicles down and make it safer to walk and cycle and we will not need separate spaces for those things, they will become part of the fabric of our communities.
Ride the bus or train instead of your stupid SUV or pickup once in a while and find out what it is like to live together with your neighbors (and how much less aggravating life in modern America has the potential to be!).
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It might have something to do with the fact...
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It might have something to do with the fact that when they autopsy dead condors they find lead shot in their guts not tire balancing weights.
Also interesting is the fact that the highest concentration of motor vehicles and the highest concentration of condors doesn't overlap.
I'm sure that it must be the tire balancing weights, somehow.