I would rate this as poor

- No shoulder
- Moderate amount of traffic
- Hi usage from commercial vehicles
- Straight sections allow visibility, but also promote faster speeds from auto's.

This didn't strike me as a quiet country road, more like a primary 2 lane feeder into/out of a town.

As to determining suitability ?, no great methods excepting the use of a state/county/city bike map that has done this, which generally have no mileage indicated thus make route planning problematic. And there is no on-line mapping program as yet that I'm aware of.

I am nearly complete on an extensive route measuring and mapping project of approx. 300 miles of roads in Nassau County, NY (Long Island), with mileage for appropriate roads on cue sheets. This was based on my own experiences as to which roads were appropriate for road cycling, as well use of the now out of print, Nassau County Bike Map of the early 1980's. I originally envisioned this as a booklet with cue sheets and a companion map set, but my problem is trying to get it on a new map, and am now considering an on-line version as an alternative.

I would dearly love to see a site like MapItPronto or some such, have color coding as to road suitability. When combined with the ease of determining routes thru the automatic mileage calculating, it would make route planning simple. The problem then is, what do you do with the on-line route ?. Do you download it to a GPS ?, an iPhone device ?. Print it out ?. Not sure where to go with it.

Just food for thought

Steve B.


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