Roger, 
I will keep this short but I would like to post my views with regard to a bike path on Chappy. I have been visiting Chappy for over 30 years and hope to be for the next 30. As a family, we are all vehemently against a bike path - it is expensive, does not guarantee safety, and, as several posts have mentioned, it ruins our "narrow winding Chappy Road". Furthermore, given the many hidden drive ways, Litchfield and North Neck Road, the Chappy Beach Club parking lot, and the ferry line, I don't see where a path could feasibly be placed. I would also caution that the perceived false sense of safety that bikers would get from a bike path would actually result in more accidents at driveway intersections. Several strategically placed speed bumps on the road will keep drivers to the required 25 mph and minimize the already very low bike-related accidents on Chappy. I would strongly suggest inserting speed bumps along the road to maintain the speed limit but am against destroying the island with a bike path. 
Thanks, 
Kathryn Walsh.