Originally Posted by squegeeboo
Can you just go over to 154 or 68 and up? Or are they too busy/rough to take?
Oh, hell no. 154 is basically a freeway with stoplights. 68 is a four lane arterial with a narrow right lane, no shoulder and no bike lane or turn lanes much of the way. It would be suicide to ride that every day. I've ridden on it two or three times for less than a half mile and it sucks. Pretty much everything west of I-15 and the Jordan river is like that. All the roads that could take me out that way are pretty bad too.
Originally Posted by DataJunkie
Is that your address?
5 miles each way isn't that bad. It could be worse.
Perhaps you are set in your ways and freaking about it changing. At least that is how I am.
There are quite a few places that I was told were horrible for riding around here. I gave many of them a shot and they are not that bad. However, I still prefer my nice quiet trail route.
It's not my address, close but not quite.
It's not just that it's 5 more miles, it's going to make it so that I can't rely on public transportation at all anymore. I really liked that I could ride one way before, now I'll have to ride both ways. So basically, I'll go from 15 miles a day to 40 miles a day. No matter how you look at it, that's a ****ty deal.
In the winter, durning the weather inversions when the air is the worst in the nation (yep, on several days of the year, we're the worst) I won't be able to do it. I used to figure one way wasn't bad if I took it easy. Recent studies have show that exercising for one hour when the air is like that is like smoking a half a pack of cigarettes. There's just no way I'm gonna ride for three hours on those bad air days. Without a decent public transportation option, I'll be forced to drive on a regular basis.