Even though the neighborhood is not in the city it does have a city water and sewer system. The major road that you turn off into the neighborhood from is more of a country road, not as busy as some of the city roads are, it's just about a quarter mile that is two lanes before getting to where it becomes 4 lanes in one direction, and it remains two lanes going the other direction (which is headed father out of town). I think if we were more experienced with riding it wouldn't be an issue as I do see people riding commuter bikes on that road. Although ride now if we want to ride more than just on no traffic neighborhood roads we're more likely to load the bikes up and go on base to ride just because we feel safer riding on the base roads than on the city/county roads. Just seems that drivers on base are paying a lot more attention to what is going on. (Hubby works civil service, which is what gives us base access.)