Quote Originally Posted by Kitsune06 View Post
Eugene is utterly fantastic for both pedestrians and bikers. I lived there a year from a car and thought "This isn't the pretty city I thought I knew..." ...then sold the car. The transformation of the city as a whole was magnificent. We lived on the Millrace near Glenwood, and from there, could take a little back road to a bike trail that stretched all the way through campus to downtown, and bike trails from there completely circumvented the city to take us to Springfield (Gateway) or to the other mall (I forget the name...) but it was fantastic. Even biking in the city was nice, with all the trees downtown, etc, there were never the big, long open stretches I see here... =P
My dearest friend since I was 14 got married and moved this year to Eugene. She did not know that I had taken up cycling this summer and when I was asking her how it was in Eugene she started "fussing" about the biking life and how the city has "overly accomidated" cyclists. Needless to say I set her straight as I am now one of those cycling activists.

Ever since that conversation I have had a serious itch to go visit and check it out for myself. If it wasn't for the snow and lack of jobs I think I could be tempted to move.....