I'm glad I've found a workable alterntive route for the time being. It's so much fun to be riding again, and it sure beats metro, but, man, I want my regular commute route back from the snow gods who stole it from me!

<RANT>I just want to say, too, that it's really is an outrage to me the way that cycling and pedestrian infrastructure continue to play second fiddle to cars over a week after the snow storms. No efforts whatsoever have been made to clear anything beyond the urban sidewalks. The trails and paths usually used by pedestrians and cyclists have been plowed under to make room for all the cagers, making them even more impassible than they must have been right after the snow. I'm glad my tax dollars are used by the National Park Service to clear roads to help polluting automobiles get to work (through what is technically supposed to be a park, BTW, not just a limited-access highway), but they can't be bothered to clear a 10 foot wide MUP. Come on NPS! I know I'm preaching to the choir, so I'll stop wasting your time. </RANT>