I'm going to comment because I feel like this needs some contrast.

Last year I decided I was going to bike to work. Well, going the bike path route it was a 1:15 ride. The more-road route was a 0:45 ride. In my car? 15-20 minutes of highway that's almost a straight stretch to work.

Well, it hit spring, and after a horribly cold spring, it rained almost every day in June. On my bike, this was miserable. In my car - I just go in my car and drove to work. It was easy.

Finally the rain let up and I could bike in. Went the trail route - it was pretty nice, but it took 1:15 minutes to get to work.

Next time I went the road route - omg, watching traffic, crossing streets, streets with no bike lanes, waiting at stoplights - it was a stressful mess. Always watching the cars around me. Etc. On my way home I rode the longer route with less stress.

I've known people to make a challenge of biking to work every day. The last one, a guy who worked at a bike shop. Thing is, I live in Minnesota. Every time it would be the same story - they'd do it for a while, then something would happen. A horrible spill (before studded tires), the last one rode on a super code around-0 (fahrenheit) day, and missed having a spot covered, and got frostbite. That stuff doesn't ever completely heal, you're stuck with the tissue damage for the rest of your life. This winter was absolutely god awful horrible for temps here - weeks at a time of highs of 4 degrees, -2 (again, fahrenheit).

I love my biking, but I love my car to.

I recently moved to a new place - it's halfway through the path-route to work, so I'll be biking to work a lot more now. It's great, but...sorry, I know it's a bike forum, but you can pry my car keys from my cold dead fingers. A car is just so much better at handling bad weather.