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Thought for the day
I did something today; that I have been meaning to do since starting my new job (6 months ago). I biked to work, it took 29 minutes; I plan to ride at least twice a week. I hope to get the time down to around 20 minutes.
I have a nice bike path to ride on pretty much from where I live to right next to where I work. If I worked in the middle of town, I wouldn’t have the same access to a bike path. How is the infrastructure in your area, that caters to non-car users?
Update: 28 minutes back.
I also have easy access to a shared walking/biking track, but biking to the office is a bit far. I work from home most of the time though.
I only got a bike earlier in the year (once the kids could bike faster than I could walk), and got in the habbit of lunchtime bike rides a couple of times a week, but over winter I stopped and haven’t started back up again.
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I used to bike every day but kinda fallen out of the habit of late as I mostly work from home. There’s been some good improvements to the both the cycle, and general road infrastructure recently which has made it a lot safer for me going into to work.
That said with the narrow winding roads in my area, there’s not really any room for further cycle lanes. So unless they introduce lower speed limits, or remove on street parking, then it’s probably as cycle friendly as it’ll get - which is still not super friendly.
I get by because I have an e-bike and can mostly keep up with traffic if I go hard out (except for uphill), but I wouldn’t recommend cycling on those roads to more casual / younger riders.