How many trips by bicycle do you think you are going to take where it will actually be worth going out of your way to get on the "bike freeway" instead of taking the shortest route?

Well I don't know about you, but the routes I take to avoid Auto Freeways are not the shortest paths between two points. I have to zig zag all over the place on a bike to go the route that the Auto Freeways go to directly. Not to mention also playing a stop and go game at every light...

Seems to me a stoplight free route that goes directly across town would sure beat that stop and go zig zag game I now play.

Are any of these in Seattle, WA? I've heard of them but never seen them.

Not for bikes only, but using the burke gilman and the Centennial trail in combination, you can ride from Seattle's center all the way to Arlington ( a distance by car of almost 60 miles, about halfway to Vancouver, BC) and only ride on the roads for less than 15 of that.

It's stellar. I believe there are forward reaching plans to extend this multimodal cooridor all the way to the Canadian border and on to Vancouver.

Well I don't know about you, but the routes I take to avoid Auto Freeways are not the shortest paths between two points. I have to zig zag all over the place on a bike to go the route that the Auto Freeways go to directly. Not to mention also playing a stop and go game at every light...

Seems to me a stoplight free route that goes directly across town would sure beat that stop and go zig zag game I now play.The one I rode in San Jose, positioned next to the new highway, definitely beat any other route.