Bike to Work Day
Well, for the second year in a row I biked to work on Bike to Work Day. I did see thrice as many cyclists on my route as I normally see (which is to say, I saw three rather than one…), so apparently the effort to get folks out of their cars and onto more humane transportation worked. The upshot of participating in BtWD, of course, is that one can hold oneself as morally superior to those who drive 365 rather than 364 days of the year:-)
Seriously, though, if more folks biked to work the world would no doubt be a better and more pleasant place. The cyclist does a steady pace, while the motorist is constantly accelerating and slowing. The cyclist enjoys the scenery and gets to know the very matter of the road; the motorist speeds through to his destination. Cars, of course, have their place—I wouldn’t trade mine for the world (actually, to be quite honest, I would trade mine in return for title to the Earth), but still there’s something about getting to one’s destination by one’s own power.
