dwilbur3

It's bad enough that it rains 9 out of every 10 days around here (Sacramento). But last week they flooded Discovery Park (my main route to work). This forced me to use a 3 mile detour to Northgate. But now they've closed the floodgate at Northgate. The only way across the river from the north is the Interstate 5 bridge. I'm sure I could get across it safely for a while but my wife has drawn a line in the sand on that route and it's not worth it to raise her ire on this one.

So I'm stuck on the bus for now. I'll probably ride my bike to the last bus stop before the park and get on bus 86. But it galls me that I can't ride my bike to work even when it's not raining!

(It'll gall me more if it keeps on raining and Sacramento becomes New Orleans part II).

RichardGlover

Wait, it rains in California?

cato_mcfly

Sacramento area here too. Luckily I'm only affected by needing to pop up to cross the main street to bypass a flooded underpass.

TheHen

When I used to ride between Davis and Sac winter rains meant riding on the debris-laden I-80 shoulder for a couple of months every year (this was before they built that separated bike path on the wrong side of the causeway). On the bright side, all the passing trucks created a constant tailwind. On the down-side, well, all those passing trucks.

caloso

Can you take the Yueda bikeway to the Pipe Bridge to the Blue Diamond plant? Or is that area flooded too?

exile

Does the bus have a bike rack up front? Your wife only has a problem with the bridge or the route?

dwilbur3

That's where they closed the floodgate. I can't get there anymore.

dwilbur3

The route requires riding on the shoulder of I-5 during the early part of rush hour. I can kind of see her point. It's only about a half a mile but the traffic is going 70 and not paying much mind to bikes.

exile

I usually find drivers more aware of their surroundings during rush hour. Although no cars are doing 70 on any of the routes I take. 69mph max, it is only a 45 mph zone ;-).

fietsbob

they starting Rice planting in the valley so , flooding the capitol too?

crhilton

I'm a little surprised that the only non-pedestrian bridge is an interstate. That sounds like some serious planning failure.

caloso

Don't get me started.

caloso

Just a little.

RichardGlover

Does real California still lay claim the parts north of Tejon Pass?

fsc

Dude!!! That map shows the location of all dragon ball Z battles for 3/23/2011... AWESOME

B. Carfree

Where that wet stuff turns solid, my sister-in-law's two story house in Truckee is now a step-down. The view out her second story windows is of the snow that is piled all the way to the roof. It looks like 1982 all over again. Hopefully a pineapple express won't come blasting through this spring to re-create 1986. I think the state is still fighting to avoid paying the poor folks they flooded to save downtown Sac in that one.

dwilbur3

They're planning an all-weather bike/pedestrian river crossing when they build the bridge for the new light rail to the airport. If this happens before 2020 I'll be amazed.

crhilton

Nice. Tack it on with a light rail project, like those are ever going to happen. Regardless of their merits or lack of I think they're about to get sacrificed politically.

snowman40

Is that like LA's Subway To The Sea? Because the subway is such an efficient way to get around LA....