Matt, you're forgetting Alder Thuy's most memorable reason for voting against adoption: We're too fat to bike.
Her actual quote (I'm NOT making this up): "How is a 300-pound person going to ride a bike?" Truth is indeed stranger than fiction... -- David L. Vogt Deputy Executive Director Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 106 E Doty St, Suite 400 Madison, WI 53703 608.251.4456 (Office) 414.426.0424 (Mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] BIKUS NON-LUBRIUM BUSTICUS Original Message: By a 19-1 vote, the Council adopted the Mayor's Platinum Biking Committee report tonight. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed the council (they received a respectable number of e-mails) and/or spoke at the meeting. The one holdout was Thuy Pham-Remmele (District 20), who cited the recent flat-tire prank as her reason for shifting her vote from the "yes" to the "no" column. Oddly enough, I am not sure it has been proven that the people responsible (if any were caught) were bicyclists. Interestingly, many of the victims of the prank were bicyclists. http://www.channel3000.com/news/15763095/detail.html [Oh, and by the way, our own Ann Freiwald is featured in the article above. Way to go Ann!] In addition to the citing flat-tire prank, Thuy also shared her wisdom on the impracticality of using a bicycle to drop kids off at school, run errands, or be of any use to older people. Elections for Common Council occur in one year.
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