Mea culpa….kinda sorta

In the spirit of Bike Week I’d like to apologize to any fellow activists who may have resembled my remarks about the nature and general background of activists. I know many of them and in painting with a broad brush I may have referred to things you do specifically when trying to build up a general picture of the biking activist community. Certainly there are many who back my views and some have quietly encouraged my rants. To you I’m grateful and I apologize if you were offended.  That’s the trouble with generalizations. That said, you must admit that the bike activist group has a unique diversity of its own unseen anywhere else. In my life time of community activism I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I’m sure you get that! Plus those of you who are working quietly within the framework that is building for developing and improving the bike infrastructure, guess what? You must be succeeding! At the Mayor’s ribbon cutting of the new snazzy (thru the richest neighborhood in Boston…(cut that out)) bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue, the Mayor mentioned “all neighborhoods” “reaching children” and “improving infrastructure.” Not once have we heard about the potential bike share program (phew!). Yahoo! Keep it up! Hopefully next year we’ll be riding from City Hall to the top of Dorchester Ave for the ribbon cutting of the new bike lane! Hopefully the city will work as hard as it appeared to have on Commonwealth Ave to actually take charge and not over compromise with the auto-culturists.

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