Word: bike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read Sarah J. Schaffer's call to action in the November 2 Dartboard ("Gandhi On a Mountain Bike") with great interest. It seemed that she would join such luminaries as Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King in opposing some great injustice. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the moral principle she upheld was the right to ride down pedestrians on the sidewalk...
Have you ever tried to bike through Harvard Square on the street? I tried it once and nearly became cornmeal between a semi truck and the Coop curb. Cars are relentless enough in targeting pedestrians; they become even more maniacal when competing for road space with other wheeled methods of transportation...
...obviously yet another thinly veiled excuse to oppress Quad residents. That, and the signs prohibiting bicyclists from riding in the Yard. Bicycling from the Quad to, say, Adams House without going through the Yard or riding on sidewalks requires risking death. Not to mention that walking one's bike through the Yard from the gate by the Science Center to the gate near Widener adds a good seven minutes to one's journey, too much for most Harvard students to sacrifice. Most bikers are not kamikazes; surely we can find some way for them to coexist peacefully with ambling pedestrians...
...There is a push by the [Cambridge] City Council and the community of Cambridge to have the police rigorously enforce bike laws," said Police Sgt. Paul Sugrue...
...defeats the purpose of having a bike," said Shah. "I might as well walk...