In “Falsehoods of the Harvard bike plan” [Viewpoints, June 25], Rich Pokorny wrote, “Upward of 40 of us have shown up to meetings to make our case. Rarely have even 10 people shown up to support the plan.”
If you look at the minutes of the June village board meeting where the draft bike plan was discussed, there were 15 people speaking in favor, 17 against the bike lane. It is not surprising that more spoke against, given the fact that only those with frontages on Harvard got a letter from the village announcing the meeting. In transportation committee meetings, there were never more than 20 speaking against the bike lane and in one meeting, more were speaking in favor than against.
Justin Vlasits
Oak Park