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On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:46:12 PM UTC-8, Jym Dyer wrote:
> =v= Cycle tracks will abound in Heaven.  We lost one of the
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> great ones today.
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> =v= Shortly after I arrived in the Bay Area I read an article in
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> the _San_Jose_Mercury_News_ about Ellen Fletcher, who was over
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> twice my age, carfree, and biking everywhere.  This left me both
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> inspired to do likewise, and without any excuses not to.
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> =v= Below is the earliest article about her in my e-archive, but
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> I'm pretty sure the one I read was from a year or so before.
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>     <_Jym_>
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> SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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> DATE: Monday, 09-Apr-1990
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> Section: Front
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> Edition: Morning Final
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> Page: 12A
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> Memo: Earth Day 1990
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> ELLEN FLETCHER
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>         Lisa Lapin
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> Name:  Ellen Fletcher, 61, Palo Alto.
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> Profession:  Former City Council member.
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> Issue:  Traffic congestion in Silicon Valley has tripled in the
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> past 25 years.  Along with increased numbers of cars have come
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> noise and air pollution.  In the early 1970s, Fletcher began a
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> campaign to encourage alternative transportation, especially
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> "clean" transit such as bicycles, to ease those problems.  She
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> herself bikes everywhere.
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> Outcome:  Fletcher has fought for bicycle commuting incentives,
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> including a Palo Alto law that requires bike lockers throughout
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> the city.  Another law requires companies to install showers for
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> biking employees.  She also got bicycle safety classes for
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> schoolchildren and a bikes-only boulevard.  Her current project:
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> More bike racks on buses.
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> Lesson:  "So many people complain about traffic, oil spills and
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> pollution.  But what are they doing to help the situation?  They
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> should make a personal commitment."

RIP, Ellen.

Thanks, Jym.   

>Though Fletcher owned a car, a 1964 Plymouth Valiant,
Haha LOL - of all cars, of course it had to be a 64 valiant.