This has been bugging me since Tuesday

Dear Commissioner Daugherty,

I apologize for interrupting your speech Tuesday night at the meeting about Hammett's Crossing. I'm glad nobody else at the event behaved as I did, and that we otherwise had an informative meeting. Most of all, I'm sorry to have prevented your expressing your opinions on the proposed bridge.

I lost my temper, and went out of bounds, when you dilated on supposedly unreasonable cycling advocates, rather than discussing our bridge. It seemed you were trying to unite your listeners around a common bogeyman, those cyclists always getting in our way. I was frustrated during your speech because this meeting was not the time to spin off into a cycling discussion.

I live on Hamilton Pool Road, and I ride my bike several times a week throughout western Travis, northern Hays, and eastern Blanco counties. I wish you had instead described how you had made Hamilton Pool Road safer for cyclists.

But that's no excuse for disrupting a public meeting. Sorry.

Regards,

Hugh Winkler