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When will people on bikes be treated as well as smokers?
Bike racks in rain, smokers under cover |
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25 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I am pissed. I just learned that my county would rather provide shelter from the weather for its employees who smoke (and drive up healthcare costs) than let those citizen-terrorists on bikes park out of the rain near the county building.So I have to go to the county building today after a lunch meeting. Rather than drive, I hop on my bike and dodge traffic and the shards of cars swept into the so-called "bike lanes." I get to the county building and it's starting to r ... |
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