I have to wonder too, Melalvai, about those sorts of areas that are recent victims of suburban sprawl. You know, the ones where traffic control measures haven't been adjusted to the new heavier traffic load. Speed limits that are too high, intersections that should have a traffic light instead of a stop sign, that sort of thing. There's an area like that about three miles from my house. There's a road with multiple strip malls where the speed limit is 45+, but the traffic density is fairly high. In the older suburbs, those kind of areas have a speed limit that's 35 or less. I'd be terrified to ride there.

Parts of Mesa, AZ are like that too, but they had the sense to put bike lanes on some of the roads.