BIKE: Brooking report Spam!?

[Michael Bluejay]

Not to beat a dead bucket of tofu, but the box on BicycleAustin.info 
where you sign up for the email list says:

	"Discuss  cycling as alternative transportation & roadway  politics 
with other Austinites...."

There it is right there in black and white:  "and roadway politics".  
Well, black and yellow, I used a colored background.

By the way, someone wrote a while back wanting to know where the 
website was that had the overly assertive form letter to our 
legislators.  The address is:

	http://stopdoubletax.com/

It looks like they toned down the wording though (but they still don't 
say "please").

-MBJ-


On Jun 21, 2004, at 12:01 AM, David Dobbs wrote:

> The Definition of Email Spam
>
> Email spam is Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE).
> Unsolicited means that you lack affirmative consent from the recipient
>
>
> At 22:00 -0500 6/20/04, Stan Douglas wrote:
>>
>>  That last piece of posting had something to do with biking in 
>> Austin? Get the hell out with the political spam
>
>
>
>
> As one who rides 50 to 60 miles a week average on Austin streets, I 
> consider my bicycle transportation.  I have an excellent car whose air 
> conditioning works well and which averages 25 miles on a gallon, 
> despite being 15 years old, but for most of what I do, my bike and Cap 
> Met buses are a winning transportation combination.
>
> That said, it is a fact that pedestrians, bicycles, and public 
> transportation generally mix fairly well. Where the investment in 
> public transportation is high and connections are well planned, a 
> positive synergism reinforces each mode on human scale, whereas the 
> auto/roadway system, where we spend the overwhelming amount of our 
> public transportation dollars, is nearly always an infringement on 
> other modes, frequently to the point of making them irrelevant or 
> impossible.  Automobiles have and are continuing to destroy our bike 
> friendly urban environments while fostering new suburbs that are very 
> hostile to cycling.
>
> As Socrates in The Republic points out, all things are political the 
> minute two or more people begin to interact.  Who gets what when and 
> where, if  at all, and that includes improved bicycle facilities are 
> unavoidably political matters.  Understanding what public policy is 
> vis-a-vis transportation and what steps might be taken to improve it 
> have been the subject of many a post on this list and rightfully so.  
> If I read the majority of postings to this list correctly, public 
> policy is terribly important to most cyclists, and commentary in this 
> area is neither "bulk" nor unsolicited.
>
> Spam definition above from http://www.crynwr.com/spam/definition.html
>
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