Originally Posted by
a1penguin
Good call on checking out the route for a city route. You are lucky that you were able to find a safer route. I don't understand my co-workers who ride their bikes in San Francisco. Fortunately the only major intersection is across a 2x3 lane busy road and I have no problems there other than waiting two minutes for the light on some days.
What's wrong with riding in SF? Lack of alternatives?
I learned to go around the hills whenever possible pretty quickly :-p. For example, by adding less than 1/4 mi to a route I was using for errands, I managed to avoid climbing 150 ft just to go down the other side.