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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4082)	5/4/2006 7:28:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24242

Leave the gas at the pump and pedal away Steve Lopez, LA Times Dick Riordan was the last Los Angeles mayor to preach the joy of bike riding, so when the price of gas soared north of $3 a gallon and oil company profits finally gave us a clear definition of obscenity, I thought about giving him a call. People tell me I'm off my rocker, but it seems to me that since L.A. is mostly flat and the weather is good year-round, thousands of people could get out of their cars and onto bicycles. It would take vision, if not wild imagination. I say we shut down a lane of Arroyo Parkway now and then and open it to bikes. You can't get anywhere on Wilshire Boulevard in a car, so let's get them out of there altogether. We'd need the right kind of role model to make it happen, though. And as my colleague Steve Hymon noted in Monday's paper, Jaime de la Vega, L.A.'s deputy mayor in charge of transportation and mass transit, drives a Hummer. De la Vega was a Riordan transit advisor, too, back when. But Riordan doesn't remember him driving a Hummer. If I were Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who calls himself green and wants to remake Los Angeles as some kind of enviro-friendly utopia, I'd tell De la Vega to make a choice by the end of the week: Keep the Hummer, or keep the job. Riordan, it turns out, was game for a bike ride even though he had quadruple bypass surgery less than two months ago. In fact, he'd already done a 30-mile ride since going under the knife. (3 May 2006) (full article to subscribers of LAT) energybulletin.net