29 September 05

Bike City, USA

Davis has just been recognized as the most bicycle-friendly city in the United States by the League of American Bicyclists. This town of 65,000 has over 100 miles of bikeways, thousands of bike parking places, and most important, 25 grade-separated intersections keeping bicycle and motor vehicle traffice apart.

When I was in San Francisco on Tuesday I was fearful for the cyclists on Market Street. They have every right to be on the road but it’s tough sharing the street with crazed drivers and tramlines. Today, by contrast, I rode my bike from work into town: most of the two miles were on bike-only roads. This was the first day of classes and parking a car would have been a nightmare. Instead I parked my bike right outside Ali Baba and sat and had a very enjoyable time working on my Sudoku, which I just discovered last week. I’ve discovered an unwanted addiction…

Posted by at 08:18 PM in Bicycling | Link |
  1. Davis is indeed well-deserving of its ‘bike-friendly’award. Though I did feel I was taking my life into my hands biking into campus yesterday, with the sudden appearance of thousands of undergrads displaying an astonishing lack of road sense – I’m sorry, but it’s not possible to sip a latte, talk on your cellphone and steer a bicycle simultaneously!

    Many friends back home are addicted to su doku, but with pressing work deadlines and bird migration in full swing, the last thing I need is any more distractions!
    — richard    30. September 2005, 07:37    Link
  2. I just discovered Sudoko also!! It makes my math mind so happy!
    — Karen    30. September 2005, 20:02    Link

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