Originally Posted by
pinkpowa
That's exactly my commute: constant construction, even on the MUP! The current bike with 700x23 is a flat waiting to happen in that environment. Commuting in Homestead has got to be fun....though I haven't lived there for years now, it didn't seem very commuter friendly...
-david in fla
Oh, let there be no doubt Fun it is! Getting to the mup is fun. Only a mile and I get honked at least once, especially nearing the intersection of NE 11 st and Old US1.
Recently, the powers have decided that signals are not properly connected and or controlled and have decided that underground conduits are needed, right across the mup at intersections. This mup parallels the BusWay . Riding on the busway is dangerous. Now, riding on the mup is even more dangerous. The construction is unmarked. I crashed into one of these recently. Saw it just soon enough to hit the brakes and swerve enough to avoid crushing front wheel perpendicular to a concrete knife edged conduit ditch. It wasn't there 9 hours earlier.
It still took a chunk of tread out of the edge of the front tire.