No, nobody bike commutes around here. I drive the main arteries out of my area every day and never see a cyclist. Not once in 8 years.
It's no surprise because the bike infrastructure stinks on those roads (which I'd be more than happy to support with my tax dollars to fix, and even give up a travel lane to make it happen).
It really is almost all sports bikers. It's all in the local area (I live in a very big development with almost zero office space anywhere nearby). It's hard to explain, but it really is just people tooling around in the suburbs and between developments training for bike races or triathlons.
It's a source of constant consternation and local messageboard discussion for the residents here who do have to get out of the suburb and to their jobs because all the cyclists really do impeded traffic to and from the arterial roads. What's specifically infuriating is that there's dozens of miles (maybe hundreds) of very well built and designed bike trails all over the same area, one of which even provides connectivity all the way into the major city some 30 miles away and intersects cleanly into several neighboring major employment centers (that almost all have branching connecting trail systems) along the way. I know the county next door has something like 500 miles of connected paved bike trails. But despite that, these guys will still get out on all the roads around here, endanger themselves and block traffic up for miles. I'm not sure how many there are, but it's enough to support a nice local bike store within walking distance from my house. But it's probably in the low hundreds.
Honestly, it only takes a dozen or so to fuck all the roads up every week.
The cyclists, not surprising don't give two shits and get on the local boards to make sure to let everybody know that and that their hobby is more important than everybody else.
It's no surprise because the bike infrastructure stinks on those roads (which I'd be more than happy to support with my tax dollars to fix, and even give up a travel lane to make it happen).
It really is almost all sports bikers. It's all in the local area (I live in a very big development with almost zero office space anywhere nearby). It's hard to explain, but it really is just people tooling around in the suburbs and between developments training for bike races or triathlons.
It's a source of constant consternation and local messageboard discussion for the residents here who do have to get out of the suburb and to their jobs because all the cyclists really do impeded traffic to and from the arterial roads. What's specifically infuriating is that there's dozens of miles (maybe hundreds) of very well built and designed bike trails all over the same area, one of which even provides connectivity all the way into the major city some 30 miles away and intersects cleanly into several neighboring major employment centers (that almost all have branching connecting trail systems) along the way. I know the county next door has something like 500 miles of connected paved bike trails. But despite that, these guys will still get out on all the roads around here, endanger themselves and block traffic up for miles. I'm not sure how many there are, but it's enough to support a nice local bike store within walking distance from my house. But it's probably in the low hundreds.
Honestly, it only takes a dozen or so to fuck all the roads up every week.
The cyclists, not surprising don't give two shits and get on the local boards to make sure to let everybody know that and that their hobby is more important than everybody else.