Unnecessary:

You're going a mile and a half.  It's a sunny day.  You own a working
bicycle, or have the time to make it a walk.  You're of able body.

That's a pretty tame version, really.  Today, in this cold nasty rain, I
biked the four miles to work, the three miles to school, the three miles
back to work, and the four miles home again.  For these four trips, I found
an automobile absolutely unnecessary.  Do I expect everyone to do the same?
No.  Is it fair for me, and others who care about the air we breathe, the
safety of our streets, the economic evils of petroleum, etc., to expect
those who can leave the car parked back home to do so once in awhile?  I
don't think it is.

Consider it a plea to civic virtue.

Robin Garwood
Seward
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