Dear Editor: The recent Wisconsin State Journal headline ?Madison embarks on quest to receive ?platinum? bike friendliness rating? should have appeared back in October of ?06, when Mayor Bike Shorts and the Bike Reich formed the Platinum Biking City Planning Committee to secure the League of American Bicyclists? coveted platinum rating.
While less than a scouting badge to the known universe, it?s become the city?s white whale and they now believe they?re ready to set the harpoon. Where?s all that time and money gone? Someone must be confusing activity with measurable results.