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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Boston</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> is perennially ranked as one of the worst North American cities
for driving. Don’t you think it logically follows that cyclists who
can’t think of themselves as really small cars would buy into this, and
avoid <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>’s
streets? If you’re bad for driving, OF COURSE you’re bad for
cycling (for exactly the same traffic density, street layout and traffic
control reasons), UNLESS you’re willing and able to ride your bike like a
car.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dave Hammond<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org [mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Lee Peters<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 12, 2006 4:15
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Boston Critical Mass<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [*BCM*] (no subject)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From
the Globe:</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
bike shame of our city<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=byline><span class=date><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>March 12, 2006</span></font></span><font
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>WHILE
I was glad to see the Starts & Stops column report on Bicycling magazine's
once again ranking Boston one of the worst cities for bicycling (<a
href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/05/anagram_t_map_takes_you_to_gurgles/">City
& Region, March 5</a>), it would have been more useful to have contrasted
what leaders in the best-ranked cities are doing with what Boston is not doing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The reporter seemed to dismiss the ''crunchy bastions"
(hardly true of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Diego</st1:place></st1:City>)
that are actively promoting cycling.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As
Bicycling's editor explained, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>
and the state are doing very little to make cycling safer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having
been part of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City>'s
cycling community for the past 30 years, the only significant city efforts I've
seen have been one bike path and installation of bike racks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Big
la-di-da.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><span class=signer><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>JEFFREY FERRIS </span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<span class=signer>Jamaica Plain </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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