Clark: Bike Lanes? Bah, Humbug!

Oh, yeah. I was once the poster boy for cycling suave. I’d still be riding, too. But unfortunately the bicycle-seat industry failed to keep pace with my ass. So the red Schwinn Paramount with custom chrome lugs that I ordered from Chicago back in the late 1970s remains abandoned in my basement like Puff the Magic Dragon, gathering cobwebs and dust. It’s so sad. Some days I go down and look wistfully at my old ride and think: “How in the sacred name of Floyd Landis’ steroid connection did I ever manage to straddle that thing?” The point is that I’m still very sympathetic to the bicycling mentality. It’s just that I’m even more in tune with the gas-guzzling Spokane driver mentality. So trust me when I say that trading a car lane for a bike lane on Second Avenue strikes me as one gaping pothole of a bad idea/ Doug Clark , SR. More here .

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Question: How often do you use bike lanes to get around town?