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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That letter is as much about the provincial
character of the city as it is about bike parking. Agreed, the argument is
as slippery as a summertime horse apple, but so is that of Landmarks
Commission. The comment is in response to a department in the city that
has no business blocking the installation. The historical citation is
mostly sarcastic to directly confront the commission. The historical
inaccuracy is only through omission and remember I only have 186
words.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Coal and Horses? Well, if we imagine the
invention of the bike was triggered by necessity for convenient and low
energy transportation, then coal and horses are obsolete for personal
locomotion. Trouble is, those inventors kept working, sometimes
developing bad ideas. Think of Orville and Wilbur, one minute they
are biking down the street, the next generation their invention is
used to drop horse apples onto Dresden. (please don't evoke
Godwin's Law for my WW2 reference)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appreciate all of your comments and
ideas, so don't worry I will still sing in the shower tomorrow
morning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lee</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=goannego@gmail.com href="mailto:goannego@gmail.com">Anne Wolfe</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=list@bostoncriticalmass.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [*BCM*] Op/Ed</DIV>
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<DIV>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? </DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 28/11/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Andrew
Toomajian</B> <<A
href="mailto:andytoomajian@hotmail.com">andytoomajian@hotmail.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">great letter lee! congrats.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>personally i'd love to see the whole back
bay become a pedestrian mall, but right now a few bikeracks seems a good
goal.<BR><BR> </DIV>- andy<BR><BR>
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:10:23 +0000<BR>From: <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:goannego@gmail.com"
target=_blank>goannego@gmail.com</A><BR>To: <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org"
target=_blank>list@bostoncriticalmass.org</A><BR>Subject: Re: [*BCM*]
Op/Ed
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<DIV>I thought it was a great letter. </DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>On 28/11/06, <B>Lee Peters</B> <<A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:lfpeters@gis.net" target=_blank>lfpeters@gis.net</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!)</FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/11/28/back_bay_bike_racks_perish_the_thought/"
target=_blank>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/11/28/back_bay_bike_racks_perish_the_thought/
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