Update on Allied's Bike Path

Update on my post from May 20 ("Allied Gets a Bike Path"): A number of commuters using the Southwest Bike Path through the Allied Drive neighborhood have recently been attacked by some local teenage punks. No surprise here, because school has just ended for the summer. None of this changes my original point: Allied Drive is an isolated neighborhood, and most of the bike path's users are white commuters passing through. Predictably, the police are responding by taking care of the commuters - they've promised increased attention to the bike path, which means less attention given to the rest of the neighborhood.

Allied Drive needs police protection far more than the commuters migrating between tony neighborhoods to the south and decent jobs to the north.

Bounty

Perhaps Wisconsin's greatest natural gift to the human experience is its stunning sequence of the seasons. No other habit will make one sink roots into the cultural soil of this place than keeping a close watch on the minute changes of life throughout the year. It's not just for the food that upper Midwesterners love to garden; it's the celebration of life's cyles - the hope of spring, the bounty of summer, the riches of maturity, and the inevitability of decline. Gardens teach us all these things, and more. Gardens teach us about the place we're living in.