If you travel by car, buses or subway, any breakdown or traffic gridlock could put a damper in your morning commute to work. By riding my bike, I have a lot of choices of routes, ridng between the cars stuck in traffic, taking a short-cut through the park, bunny-hopping up the kerb and taking the sceneic route by the river and if I wanted to jump a few stairs and hope I don't look foolish after having crashing the bike....(ugh!! shouldn't have done that moment)