BIKE: Re: Dang those hot keys

[Michael Zakes]

Damn, I'd hate to have you think that any petition I signed was invalid
Michael
(proud owner of an illegible signature)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Goetz" <pgoetz>
To: <forum>; <rogoyski>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:34 PM
Subject: BIKE: Dang those hot keys


>
> 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.
>
>
>
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