At 10K we are unabashed in our riding. Recently I was at a store picking up a few items. The clerk asked how I was.
I mentioned all the smoke outside (from Canadian wildfires) and went on to say that I had ridden my bicycle. We had a nice conversation as he was completing the transaction.
He even saw my pannier on the counter and packed it professionally after I confirmed he should use it.—
I filed a violation against a truck owner for emitting dangerous and harmful fossil-fuel emissions from the gas-combustion engine of his dated and rusted truck. The strength and amount of fumes that reached into my apartment through the window was unacceptable and deadly and made me gasp and gage.
Two takeaways. First reports are filed with the Department of Natural Resources who works with EPA in WI on enforcement of emissions violations. Second the reported violation is assigned a law enforcement officer.
It’s time to take back our clean air one driver at a time if need be. Remember 50 percent of deadly fossil-fuel emissions come from transportation alone.
A dear friend is planning on commuting to her place of employment one day a week.
She has not been able to prior to this because she needed her car to run errands throughout the work day.
But now smartly she plans on using a company van for those errands so she can now commute on bicycle!
Monday morning on the way to an appointment I was once again bedazzled by a bucolic berm in a park in the area.
It’s a manmade mound built to insulate the bike path and park from the harmful, poisonous emissions and obnoxious noise of six lanes of car traffic on the other side.
The berm does a wonderful job of protecting users. They can also be decorated with prairie foliage, including rudbeckia. I immediately felt the difference when I pulled up to a busy four-way stop on the other side to cross.
It’s a relief to see more berms being built up along the cycling and walking infrastructure.