| Re: Riding around town today
Claire Petersky wrote:
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:: I turned off the trail, climbed up out of the valley, and made it to
:: City Hall just around 8:00. They have no public bicycle parking,
:: just a couple of bike lockers I could see in the back, presumably
:: for employees. I just walked the bike in and parked it behind the
:: yuletide tree in the lobby.
::
:: So, I was in the meeting in lycra, but if there's any group that
:: should be tolerant of lycra wearing, it should be urban planners,
:: right? They're the ones who go on and on about "multi-modal" and
:: "new urbanism" and all that. And I was wearing my stylish red
:: wicking turtleneck, not my grey, piling, fleece top, so maybe I
:: looked somewhat presentable.
Just curious: was your meeting in a different room than where you left your
bike (in the lobby)? I would have taken my bike into the meeting room
unless it was a very small room, I think.
[...]
:: So I rode on MLK. Like probably every road in the USA named after
:: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Way goes through
:: probably the city's poorest neighborhoods.
I've been on some that aren't that way....but I don't doubt that a lot are.
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