Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
Great question for me and one big reason I think I have the luckiest commute route.
NYC is notorious for insane traffic. If you haven't been to NYC, you have no idea. On north-south avenues, there are TWENTY intersections per mile. But I don't have to ride on the streets for most of my commute. I ride a bike path which has virtually no intersections, and that path is most of my 13-mile commute. I just counted on the map. There are about 30 intersections on my route, so that's 2.3 intersections per mile. When I first started taking this path, I was astonished at how fast I got to my destinations. I got there early!