I biked to work every day of my career working for DNR, beginning as grad school student biking from Lakeside St on LAKE MONONA to the Sq Building in 1974, and when I moved to Midvale Blvd. , DNR moved school to GEF II, just east of the State Capitol. There was still the occasional freight train using the S/W Corridor route, wiped out more than once attempting to n on the loose pea gravel that was every so often added onto the& hairpin turn at the s/w “pleasure drive” in back of Edgewood College at the same time a motor vehicle taking a short cut to So. Park was over the center line and, despite my bike and body sprawled across the road in the wake of avoiding the collision, never bothered to stop.
I worry this same thing could happen with motorized bikes using bike paths not designed for accommodating motorized vehicles on the bike/ped/dog walking paths? Why can’t commuters who don’t have ability to peddle take transit? I believe that will become much more efficient. What I really don’t like seeing is commuters who drive their cars from outskirts of Madison and adjacent communities ((where property taxes are lower), park a cross from my house, and then use the city’s bike routes free of charge. And now they are insisting on being able to use fossil fuel burning derived energy for navigating the city bike paths? Remember “Conserve Now”? In case you missed it, global warming has arrived, and not unexpectedly. We need to do everything in our power to stop the madness and injustices we too have contributed to, especially by flying on wpr’s fund raining trips and Dane County’s record enplanments out to all location around the planet. All children have every right to be creating civil disobedience, about that, U.S. Military fuel burning and Earth.s demise and extinctions, if nukes don’t make it all mute first! Mike Neuman, Waite Circle, Madison, Wi ALLTHINGSENVIRONMENTAL.COM
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