Bet-@schetkynw.com

My response.



You look like a level headed person. But you don't really make sense. On

one hand you are saying that it is correct because we are saving the

environment etc etc. I just wish you would try to commute to work ONE WEEK.

Try and see what it is like to be completely naked to the environment. Wave

at traffic as you cross by the bike bridge that travels right over the

freeway while the cars sit and wait in traffic at 7:30 AM in the morning.

Get to work refreshed and exhilarated and alive and no need for your daily

dose of coffee. Instead eat your yogurt, banana, bagel that you prepared to

pack in your sturdy backpack. Witness the sunrise, the sunset and wave at

the friendly bike commuters that you meet on opposite sides of the road or

that you choose to race with to work(letting them draft your wheel to work).

Make some new friends that care about not polluting the earth and seem so

fit and friendly and darn it HAPPY too. You are failing to see that bikes

are a bare necessity today and we do pay taxes and fees on the roads and our

car insurance as well. My Audi sits in my garage 5 days a week while I

CHOOSE to bike to work because it feels good and DRIVING is a luxury for me.

When it is raining and cold and dark in the winter time I cherish my car

sometimes to have the convenience of a radio, heat and warm dry air after

work while I drive to the grocery store or the gym. Biking to work keeps me

grounded and humble to appreciate my true blessings of health and happiness.

Please be careful and SEE me and don't be a person of road rage against

harmless cyclists.



Beth Whittaker

Portland, Oregon

Friendly Bicycle Commuter