=v= Interesting program in Santa Rosa, California. As an incentive to bike (or skate) to work, commuters get free movies. There's an article in the _San_Francisco_Chronicle_:
=v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.
=v= I haven't seen this item in any of the "Oddly Enough" newswire sections, but the folks at the notoriously anti-bike KGO has put it in their "News of the Bizarre" section:
=v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.
He sure does save alot of money, 2 to 3 million a year! He must have VERY expensive taste in cars. Or maybe that's just the cost of living in California.
Jym Dyer at [email hidden] wrote on 2/21/03 9:47 AM:
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=v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.
Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County, and can be a tad urban in places.
