Dear Mr. Becker,
Hello and happy holidays! My name is Mike Biros. Next summer will be my fourth working as a ranger for The Trustees out on Cape Poge. I'm also one of the sons of Beth and Rick Biros. We live at 91 Litchfield Rd in the summertime. I want to become more involved in the great bike path debate for a number of reasons. I bike to and from Mytoi almost every day to get to work. I drive the big green Trustees van to pick up tour goers from the ferry often multiple times per day and frequently deal with maneuvering that beast around many young (often careless) bikers. I'm also a Junior at Dickinson College studying Environmental Science and Art. In addition to having a strong opinion in favor of a bike path, I feel like I can be a wealth of anecdotal knowledge to the Chappaquiddick community concerning the bike path.
For the next few weeks I will be on winter break and in addition to building a yurt, I plan on doing some basic research about bike paths and writing a letter to the editor. First of all, thank you so much for creating chappybikepath.com. It is a fantastic website and just what this community needs: an open, unbiased online forum for debating this issue. As I come across interesting articles and papers, I'll be sure to send them your way.
Attached are three photos I took on Dike Bridge last summer. It was a beautiful day in July and I was coming back from patrol and was astonished at the sheer number of bikes parked on the bridge. In addition to filling up all of the three bike racks we have on the bridge, there were bikes parked all along the entire stretch of both sides of the guardrail on the eastern side of the bridge. I took a few photos of all the bikes as proof of the substantial volume. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could post them on the website.
I also did a quick search and found the Massachusetts Bicycle Transportation Plan. It was published in September of 2008. I haven't read the whole thing, but I think it's very relevant and worth posting. The url is: <http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/common/downloads/bikeplan/Final_Bike_Plan.pdf>.

Thanks,
Mike Biros