BIKE: Dang those hot keys

[Patrick Goetz]

The previous message escaped into the wild prior to completion due to 
hurried typing.  I was saying,

I happened to obtain a copy of this petition from an anonymous source,
and it looked something like this:

      Bob Snerd		         2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for 
signature)
      Frieda Snerd		2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for signature)
      Joe Snerd		         2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for 
signature)
      Betty-Sue Snerd	       2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for 
signature)
      Spot Snerd		2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for signature)
      Baby Snerd		2525 Rosewood Ave  (illegible scrawl for signature)
      The Snerds Grandma   1911 Wood St., Tyler (illegible scrawl for 
signature)


with all the signatures in the same hand-writing.  followed by another 
block of signatures in roughly the same format.  And again, I'm not 
making this up.  I didn't every page of the petition, but the pages I 
looked at were at this level of validity.  I'm fairly certain that this 
is the usual case of 4 or 5 households of bullies insisting that the 
city revolves around them.

"Although bicyclists have supported a paved bike path in the Rosewood 
area, it shouldn't be done at the expense of the neighborhood, said Dave 
Westenbarger, a bikeway organizer."

Dave, WTF?  Why are we constantly cratering to a handful of jerks?  I 
can state with absolute certainty that if I lived in Rosewood, a paved 
bicycle trail would add to rather than detract from my quality of life. 
  We shouldn't even be allowing them to assert that they have a valid 
petition, let alone a reasonable point of view.  A paved bike path is 
not at the expense of the neighborhood!  There very idea is completely 
absurd, and only in Austin would it be given even 2 seconds of attention.