Two Wheels vs. Four Wheels
It gets better. While riding on the lakefront trail—a bike path, not even a road that I’m obligated to share with motor vehicles—I was shot at roughly a dozen times by the passenger in a car coming down the Lake Shore Drive exit lane near Montrose. Fortunately he missed every time—moving platform, moving target—and only knocked some twigs out of the trees around me, so I didn’t get to find out the hard way whether the rifle he was using was a pellet gun or a paintball gun. But I don’t think there’s any arguing that this is some messed-up shit.
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Last year, two women trying to hail cabs kicked me while I was riding north on Halsted too. All this violence is unacceptable. They have all put my life in danger and all I did was ride a bike. We need more laws to protect bikers. —Jed
For every bad driver there are a hundred good ones who are polite and careful with cyclists. Thanks to them, I’ve never been hit and the only thing that’s been tossed from a window at me was a kiss. —happybicycles
Ben Joravsky’s incessant vitriol that maligns, vilifies and demonizes Mayor Daley is bombastic and only resonates with nihilists, atheists and anarchists. Conversely, articles in National Geographic, Time magazine and Vanity Fair that have lauded Daley for being a green mayor have resonated with ecologists, environmentalists, conservationists, nature stewards, horticulturists and botanists. Being green is more constructive than venting spleen. —Brien Comerford
