Mike Ruff

I'm in. The thing to do is let them know just how many cyclists there

are. They made a bad mistake and apparently don't know their city. I

suggest getting this out to the other groups ie. wheelmen, salem bicycle

club etc. I am getting tired of the way I am treated on the road and

the last thing we need is more motorists thinking it is okay to harass

cyclists.



Long, Steve wrote:

 Hello gang,

I'm sorry to say that yesterday morning, 105.1 The Buzz, joined in with

a caller that was complaining about bicycles being on any road without a

bike lane. Our good buddy, Nelson, seems to think that anything without

a motor in it has no place on the road and that cyclists should be

forced to take a taxi to their place of riding, indoors, and take a taxi

back home again. And, good old Terry had to agree with the caller too

because, once when he was pulling his boat out of the water with his

Ford Excursion, and there was a bike in the way and it slowed him down

a little.



I called them to discuss it a little this morning and they were so rude

that I couldn't believe it. Josh answered the phone and he was just

about as rude as could be, not even wanting to give me the time of day.



Yesterday, I called the Program Director of The Buzz, Jeff McHugh and he

never even returned my call.



In this day and age, in this City of Portland, and its Metropolitan

region, that has been labeled the friendliest cycling city in America,

and when on this very day, there's a front page article in the Oregonian

discussing a, nearly 2 million dollar, add campaign targeted at reducing

the Portland Metropolitan Area's traffic congestion, it seems, whole

heartedly, irresponsible and bad citizenship for a public entity as

popular as the Buzz to behave in this manner.



If any of you cares to join me in letting the Buzz and Entercom, for

that matter, know much the Metropolitan region disapproves of this

behavior, here are some helpful names and e-mail addresses:

Program director for the Buzz:

Jeff Mchugh

jmch-@entercom.com



Sales Manager:

Brian Lee

bl-@entercom.com



Above these two on the food chain are:

Jeff Clarke

jcla-@entercom.com

And

Erin Hubert

ehub-@entercom.com



Some of the companies that advertise with the Buzz are

Wells Fargo

The Shane Company

Safeway

Allstate

Les Schwab

PureRomance.com

KATU

Mattress World



Perhaps we could also let their advertisers know how much we disapprove

of this behavior and that we take notice of companies that support it.

Just a thought gang. I hope some of you join me.



Steve Long

NRR

Mike