actout touches on a interesting point.

Over 40,000 people die in auto related injuries a year. To put that number in perspective, the US death toll the four years of WWII was 418,000. From 2001-2004 the US lost nearly 450,000 people in auto-related accidents.

On the other side of the equation, 750 bicyclists are killed every year by automobiles in the US. Statistically it is safer to ride a bicycle than drive a car.

If we ever want to stop the wanton killing and maiming of Americans...we should figure out how to stop the automobile from being a weapon of terror and destruction.

The bicyclists who took to the Freeway are no less patriotic than those who broke British harbor laws and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

The distance from downtown Los Angeles to the beach at Santa Monica is the same as the distance between Lower Manhattan's Battery Park to the Bronx.

There is no reason that there isn't a better transportation system in place in Los Angeles. Fifty years ago greedy oil and car corporations colluded to keep mass transit and alternative transportation out of Los Angeles. Now that we have gridlock and $4.00 a gallon gas, the "patriots" are prepared to fight back...on a bicycle.