I use a bike path every day to get to work.
Nobody will run me over in a car on the bike path
Cops won't harass me for listening to my iPod
I can actually hear the iPod
I see children on their way to school -- lots of them (when was the last time you saw lots of children riding bikes on their way to school?)
I see lots of adults riding to work or just exercising
I see ducks, hawks, kites (the bird kind), crows, cedar waxwings, gold finches and even Western Tanagers, herons, egrets and more
I don't see any cars at all for miles and miles
I don't see any traffic signals and only one, no make that two stop signs for 5 miles (compared to the 30 intersections I would see on the main road)
I can ride as slow or as fast as I want (usually pretty slow)
I can ride in the dirt if I want
If I stop and look over the bridge I can probably see a turtle
What's not to like about this?