BIKE: Mostly Well-Done AusChron Article on SCB (Bury the Hatchet)

[Thorne]

<<Why push for a [SCB] solution that . . . >>

Solution to what?  I wish you guys would give it a rest already, and I mean
that in the best spirit of
brotherly-let's-enjoy-our-riding-and-spread-the-cycling-bug-to-the-heatherns-love.
 

The main source of the "Shoal Creek Debacle," as near as I can tell, if you
can forgive the perspective*, is that someone thought bike lanes on the street
would be a good idea.  I've been riding on SCB since the early 1990s.  It's
always** been a pleasant, safe place to ride singly or in groups and a bike
lane or two, with or without parking, wouldn't improve it.  There's no problem
to solve on SCB, which is why for so many years so many people have been
coming to SCB to cycle, rather than avoiding it.

Years ago, and it must have been around 2000, if faulty memory serves and
considering what bike I think was riding on SCB at the time, I signed some
kind of petition to help the organizers of some bike lane effort for SCB. 
Even then, I asked the guy asking for my signature, "what for? SCB is fine
riding like it is."  I signed my name in the spirit of helping out those
brothers and sisters making the honest effort to do cycling a good turn.  I've
regretted that signature ever since.

*If you can't forgive that, and want to respond, reply, or vent, please spare
the list your vitriol/wisdom, though.  I'm not certain that the list will
benefit from the repetition.

**Always, that is, except for when it had that crazy zig-zaggy park here but
not there move left now but now move back right bike lane system painted on
it.