Letter: The real cost of being ‘transformative’

Letter: The real cost of being ‘transformative’

As we watch our bike bridge coming together we still find ourselves essentially clueless as to what bike numbers we’ll see. Why? For one, the bridge was planned to be “transformative” for the city, but that ship had already sailed. As of 2017 Chico had 3,000 cyclists (League of American Bicyclists, “Where we Ride 2017”), mostly thanks to Chico State’s 15,000 part- and full-time students. That count is four times the 800 the proposal supposed the…