Drew Simmons of Wicked Outdoorsy makes an interesting point about Bike-to-Work week. Many of our urban bikeways are so poorly designed that people will feel lucky they survived the trek at all.
I live in Ventura, a slow-growth community with a population of 106,000 some-odd people (some odder than others) but I fear cycling here. I did considerable biking in Orange County, Santa Cruz County, Redlands and Ojai. But Ventura, for some reason gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I’m afraid things won’t get better until oil jumps a little higher. Then maybe we’ll see another bike boom like we had in the 1970s.