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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

2. It's a pain in the neck to use the racks

Reply to unc70 (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 05:23 PM

Jun 2016

I agree that MLK needs to be widened to support at least a shoulder, if not a dedicated bike lane. I know I'd pick an alternate route, myself, but I'm a traffic weenie.

As for cycling in lousy weather, I did it. Once you get used to a certain level of exercise, you feel lousy when you don't do it. So yes, there was the frequent spectacle of yours truly doing grocery shopping on a bicycle during snowstorms back in Mass.