🚀 go-pugleaf

I decided to cut out all the stuff that Martin and Tom had said for bandwith 
purposes.  Everyone read it if they were interested in it.

Here's my 2 cents worth, so to speak.  I would love a bikeway.  And I mean a 
discrete, isolated-from-the-traffic, one.  I've got the feeling thats what 
Martin is talking about.  

Now that would be really great.  Just to worry about which way to turn.

Tom, on the other hand, seems to be more realistic.  He's a "seasoned" bike 
rider who can handle himself just fine in traffic.  Thats me too.  I've been a 
"road warrior" for 23 years now.

I'll be very blunt here.  If you wait for the city, even with letter of 
suggestion or pressure, to build a bridge, or a bicycle bridge, over the 
harbor, I can guarantee you right now you will grow very old waiting for it to 
happen.  I've been in this town for 16 years now and have heard of this 
*mystical* bridge ever since I got here.  

I've actually gotten to the point that I don't want to see it build.  I kinda 
like brommer and broadway just the way they are.  I've also gotten very used 
to walking my bike up the stairs to the frederick st. park.  With all the 
traffic on capitola rd. and eaton st. bridge, its actually a pleasant 
alternative.  I kinda dread the traffic we will see on broadway past seabright 
and brommer past 7th if a bridge gets built.  

Martin, I really wish Santa Cruz *County* had their act together, too.  And I 
understand, being from San Diego origionally, what a bikeway can offer an avid 
cyclist.  Most bikeways in California were erected in the 70's.  Dreams of 
bikeways on branciforte, east to west, to watsonville...  I donno.

Tom, I *think* your a cyclist.  Maybe you've forgotten what it was like to mix 
it up with buses and trucks when you started out.  I kinda wish everyone, even 
the people who will flame me l;}, could get out there on a bike and see what 
its like at 5:00 during the week trying to get from one side of town and the 
other.  I think it makes everyone on a bike *pucker up* once in a while.  

*Thats* the part I think Martin wants to change.


M.T.