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Thursday, April 28, 2005

FRIENDS OF MIDTOWN WEBSITE AND FORUMS

A new website from the Friends of Midtown is offering another opportunity for dialogue in the area. The new forums are up at that site and welcoming to folks wanting to discuss not just Midtown, but the Harrisburg region in general. And all topics are game.

A topic about unsafe bicycle riding conditions has popped up there that you might want to check out and contribute too.

http://www.friendsofmidtown.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=19

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// posted by franklen @ 5:41 PM

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Whats New

~ Support Paper Zine Version-3/31/04
~ Fellow Commute Stories Wanted-3/3/04
~ Local Weather at Page Bottom - 12/15/03
~ Please sign my new guestbook - 12/7/03
~ Bicycle Commuting Costs - 11/15/03
~ Important Goals Statement - 10/15/03
~ Commuting Advocacy Article - 8/9/03

FEATURE POST

Monday, February 09, 2004

A HALLUCINATING TRIP

Its cold and wet out as I ride into work, my head down and my thoughts numb, my intent forward and my path clear. Rolling onto the Walnut St. ped bridge I glance up and the way ahead is untraveled. One walker only, and on the cement paved sidewalk at that. My knobbies make a low rumbling vibration as I travel over the open metal grating that makes the travelling base of the bridge. Dark metal openings letting the view of the blue ice through and I meditate on the frozen river momentarily. Suddenly one of the stone column piers that support the bridge begins to enter my view. First the base as it meets the icy river, then as I move forward the stone pier looms more into my full field of vision. Head still down, soon the column takes up my field of vision absent of the river anymore. Soon the top of the column will meet the bridge itself and I will pass over the column and begin moving towards the next. I know that my way ahead is free, that the rise of the column stops underneath the bridge travelling surface, but my mind suddenly tells me different... Read the rest here