Quote Originally Posted by SFLiz View Post
I know Glen Allen area has since developed and urbanized much more and hopefully bike lanes have been added since Wholefoods/REI/Trader Joes arrived?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Yeah, nothing could be farther from your hope. Glen Allen is the worst of the worst example of car-centric development. Worse than that, even. Henrico has no desire to do anything for bicycling or walking. Oh wait, I take that back. The Virginia Capital trail will go through eastern Henrico...eventually. It's the last bit; it's already built from Jamestown to the Henrico-Charles City Count line and the short segment in Richmond city was finished a couple of years ago. So yeah, Henrico isn't even pretending to support anything but car culture. That is soooooooo 20th century!

I do have high hopes for Richmond on the bicycle front, however. Mtn biking is already very good, and I love riding on the country roads in eastern Henrico (despite the county's car-only leadership), and I do enjoy riding in the city. But I'm very comfortable in traffic and it's not people like me they need to get on bikes.

The 2015 UCI World Road Championships will be a game changer. Hopefully.