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Article: Hope Amid the Spokes and the Wheels
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 17, 1989
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure to introduce WMCA. No,
that's not a radio station. However, it is a beacon. A beacon of
hope.
WMCA stands for Washington Metropolitan Courier Association.
It's the professional association representing bicycle messenger
companies in the Washington area.
I've written long (and less than lovingly) about the people who
work for these companies. In my gentler moments, I've called them
law-flouting, obscenity-spewing, bath-needing, wild-riding,
pedestrian-smashing madmen.
I've described how they run down defenseless old ladies in
intersections. I've recounted how they bash in the windows of
motorists who point out that the messenger has just run a red ...