Bicycles by the station

Walking in most places outside of downtown involves a constant negotiation of both bicycles and people, but particularly by the station. The people become objects, forms of resistance and reactance, creating an impedance for the fluid flow of human forms, or rather, of my form, my legs like wheels only slower, wheels like a circle of legs BICYCLE making it ANOTHER BICYCLE hard to progress bike bike bike. It becomes such a massive headache to BIKE AGAIN get anyBIKEwhere that you can really get BIKING irritated. The BIKES become a constant set of hurdles, not to HUMAN AND BIKE be overcome, but sidestepped. Steps BIKE BIKE bike bike bike become sidesteps, backsteps, bikesteps, backpedaling, sidepedaling, bikepedaling in the most densely BIKE BICYCLE BIKE crowded Biking areas. Everyone wants to biking put their bicycles bicycles bicycles as close close close as possible so that all the HUMANS walking have to BICYCLE step around them to get to the station over the BIKABLE sidewalk which is what it truly makes you do -- side walk, walk sideways, more like weaving than walking. The BIKE BIKE ANOTHER BIKE-A-ROODLE sidewalk becomes a bike bike bike park park parking lot a stuttering of space and bicycling walking aggravation BIKE BIKE to any forBIKEward progress. The metal underbikestructure holds up the black black bike seats waiting bikingly patiently to be re-en-bottomed by the returning bicyclists. Once past the limit of unbikability, the bike-less train stations and platforms become a relief of smoothly facilitated stepping or standing around waiting, calm and safe finally past the little teensy hurdles of others' mobile convenience become markers of metallic inconsiderate self-concern that ruin a simple walk to the station or thereabouts.

-- michael pronko