Quote Originally Posted by Velobambina View Post
Grog--Many thanks. I'm trying to muster the courage to commute to my new work locaton, and while most of it is MUT, the last few miles are fairly busy roads. I'm scared, to be honest, ...
It was my first commute yesterday, and the ride in the morning isn't so bad, but evening drive time, there's the one intersection....

The road goes from three lanes to about ninety, and then once through that mess, back down to a much more manageable five going past the Costco...

There's on-ramps, off-ramps, two or three left turn lanes, people crossing from the ramps to the farthest possible left lane they can get to -- it's scary by car! Oh -- and it's on top of the freeway, with access onto and off of that!

I got off and walked the whole danged thing yesterday. DH said, when I told him that, "I could have come got you with the car" Phooey on that, I was having a great ride aside from that interchange!

It's a nicely marked stretch, and there ARE bike lanes, but with the on and off ramps, and the right turn lanes, and everything else going on -- three stop lights too in this little stretch -- it's just NOT a happy place to be a biker! Even we have to be moving left and right and back again. I decided to just not do it!

Got one other intersection where I go play pedestrian: there's too much junk in the bike lane right there, and it's all but impossible to avoid flatting! (and too much traffic to move even farther left!)

Karen in Boise