Bike to work week

It's Bike to Work Week and Thursday is Bike to Work Day. I often look to the skies and remember with great fondness how the days following September 11 were so quiet and wish that somehow people might trade in their SUVs for bicycles and masstransit more often than not. The population would be slimmer, would sleep better and the environment would benefit from less gridlock. It's a nice dream that will probably only receive any notice after Antarctica has melted or all the crude oil has been depleted.