[*BCM*] Op/Ed

[Anne Wolfe]

No, historical accuracy wasn't the point of the letter.  It is just the part
that will get most easily picked apart to write off a good point as coming
from some fool, which Lee isn't.  If the bike racks were easy to get through
the mass populace, it would have happened much more easily by now.  Instead,
no bike racks, no parking meters, no nothing, and an excuse to totally
disregard a very valid point.  Because disregarding valid points with
collateral side issues never happens in the Boston media now, does it?

I'd like something more working on that 38,000 people cycling in and around
Boston every day.  That's something that would surprise a lot of people, and
starts people thinking there's strength behind it.


On 28/11/06, Andrew Toomajian <andytoomajian at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  great letter lee!  congrats.
>
> to the peanut gallery - historical accuracy isnt the point.  if it were,
> we'd make the place a swamp again.  we humans tend to be pretty selective in
> what parts of history we want to keep and what ones we relegate to the
> dustbin.  lee's letter seems to make the point that bikes are every bit as
> valid as cars in the back bay, and perhaps more so.  and it does this
> successfully.
>
> personally i'd love to see the whole back bay become a pedestrian mall,
> but right now a few bikeracks seems a good goal.
>
>
> - andy
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> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:10:23 +0000
> From: goannego at gmail.com
> To: list at bostoncriticalmass.org
> Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Op/Ed
>
> I thought it was a great letter.
>
> Until I realized that at the time of creation, the Back Bay as cited was a
> swamp and the roads were backed up with horses, carriages, mud, and (as
> Colonel Potter used to call it) "horse puckey."
>
> Different to cars, but not much safer, and a different kind of dirt.  Pro
> bikes, good, but appealing to the historical sense seemed to have a big
> flaw.
>
>
> On 28/11/06, *Lee Peters* <lfpeters at gis.net> wrote:
>
>  Hey kids -- This is the 1st letter I got past the editors of the Globe.
> (Turtle provided guidance on how to do this a couple months ago, thanks!)
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/11/28/back_bay_bike_racks_perish_the_thought/
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