File under: 'Some things you just can't paste up.'

Actually, per the picture in the "paste-up" posting here, many locals would like some of those Traffic Calming Islands here in the Westside neighborhood, the ones subject to the wrath in the editorial photo and the opinion essay by Mrs. Self. The wide spot where Valerio St. crosses Gillespie St. would be a perfect location, as traffic often hits 40mph there speeding between the stop signs very far apart at Islay St. and Micheltorena St. The numerous kids crossing to school there and Trixie on her bike also might benefit there as well!

Maybe a circle of a dozen of the market basket, shopping carts routinely strewn around the 'hood also could serve that function and also help with a few other City goals at the same time? The traffic-calming roundabouts also could be fabricated out of all those unnecessary, visually blighting, excessive street sweeping signs that are overly abundant here as well.

As for the rest of the Voices section that has re-appeared in the NewsPress Sunday edition, I am still not seeing anything that is not already consistent with the Company Line and pre-determined editorial opinion position. At least one would think the flag-waiving opinion essay by Joe Guzzardi at least would mention why he endorsed Dan Secord for Supervisor. Or, is that subject for his new weekly column in the Sunday Voices section? I like Joe Guzzardi just fine, but others should be published there as well.

For Travis, The Wrong Way Feels Right:

http://www.esnips.com/web/guildedtruthsO...

The traffic circles are a curiosity. It's enjoyable watching two facing cars sit in deadlock, both awaiting the other to make a move. It's like a new sport in town: "Santa Barbara Circle Chicken".

That article about clogged arteries was a remarkable invective filled rant. She pretty much slimed the bicyclists of this town, who do their best to relieve traffic, reduce pollution, and reduce our oil habit that supports rotten regimes like that in Saudi by bicycling around town when they can. As many residents complain about congestion when they drive their cars, you'd think car supporters like Michael Self would give a bouquet to every bicyclist who keeps a car off the road by biking.

Self bemoans the loss of 33 parking places, which actually were not parking places just before the construction of the several hundred space Granada parking lot. Bicyclists want to get the bike lane restored that was taken away to create the 33 spots, as a temporary measure until the expansion of the Granada lot provided lots of new parking for business people. Oh yes... redevelopment funds (public moneys) were used to build the Granada lot... so business gained big time. But Self wants every last crumb for the car.

Over 2/3 of the population is bicyclists, not 1/25 like Self asserts.

Yikes! That weirdness opinion piece by Michelle Self is a scattered dose of ad hominem, non sequitur attacks just like an editorial by Travisty himself! Is that the only kind of commentaries they now receive, or is it just the only kind of people who bother to submit anything?

If she does not like those temporary traffic circles or roundabouts, then just write up why they are a problem and what should be done instead. That buckshot approach misses the whole point with the paranoid Travistian theories about how all the bike riders are Out To Get Her.

Maybe people in huge vehicles speed too fast, so the city is doing what it is doing with all those traffic slowing installations? If speeding is not a problem, Ms. Self forgot to make that point.

And, yes, the WRONG WAY photo was a nice swirl of whipped cream atop the espresso. No doubt a latte with a triple shot... of Irish whiskey!