To the Editor: Feb 5, 1995 If you frequently use your bicycle for commuting and other utility transportation you may think you don't need anything from a bicycle master plan, but planners need something from you! The nearly identical plans of Logan and Hyde Park have goals to encourage cycling as a transportation alternative, to improve bicycle safety and develop a "continuous bike/pedestrian trails system" within and between cities. If you already use a bike for transportation, you probably recognize that a separate trail system is not what you need to help you get where you are going. You also probably have a different idea than the plans present of what safety issues are important. The plans paint a picture of unacceptable safety risks for the prospective cyclist on the existing network of roads. Those of us who find the roads to be acceptably safe need to make that fact, and our numbers, known. Then, local government might be encouraged to support transportation cycling in ways that are more effective than a sparse system of separate trails. Our urban streets are generally wide and we know that lane sharing works. We could use other bike-friendly enhancements like: street sweeping, repair of potholes and sunken manhole covers, bike sensitive traffic signal sensors, replacement of wheel eating drain grates, railroad crossing modifications. And we could use education and awareness programs to improve the skills and style of other cyclists whose reckless reputations we must endure. Our municipal plans are not being developed by planners who cycle or have any understanding of cycling for transportation. They need our input or the useless developments that result will be taken as evidence that there is no constituency of transportation cyclists. Please lend your support by attending a short meeting of a coalition of commuter cyclists, at 5 p.m. Saturday in the Logan Library or by giving your name in support of our efforts. Call me evenings at 752-8386. Bob Bayn North Logan 752-8386 (h) 797-2396 (w)