On 12/10/18 11:04 AM, 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote:
Running errands by bike requires different route planning than by car. Once I figured this out, it’s been realitively simple to discover longer routes that are far more plesant and safe to bike and intersect with the main highway very little.
True for commuting as well. There often will be low-traffic parallel routes through neighborhoods that stay away from the major collectors, mostly carrying local traffic only so far less traffic. You may have stop signs at every corner, as is the case here in Alexandria VA, but commuting I'd rather be a little slower and a lot safer. Commuting != training opportunity; in fact, trying to train while commuting is little more than a way to insure you're going to need a shower to get presentable when you do arrive at work, which will probably negate any time savings created by going fast.
The newish MUP helps tremendiously as well. That didn’t exist initially and meant I didn’t need to ride on the highway at all to get up the hill. But down the pass to Colorado Springs is a different story entirely. I no longer try to figure that out. Maybe once the planned MUP extensions happen, but as others have said, the timelines on those, even if stated, are unreliable.
Isn't that just the truth! Here in some places we're still waiting for the construction of trails that first appeared in the master transportation plans over 20 years ago. Other trails & protected bike lanes seem to have sprung up out of nowhere, seemingly never having appeared in any planning documents ever before. In still other cases, the extensions finally were built -- to great acclaim and heavy use -- only after decades of waiting.
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