How's the bike infrastructure where you ride?

[Tom@WashDC]

And cold. Need the wet, soca t honestly complain. Cold is winter, but still unusual lately. I may ride today as it’s my birthday and it’s an occasionally observed tradition. I’ll watch my weather station to check actual local temps.

We should get a ride in together this Spring or Summer.

 

[Chazmo]

Central Massachusetts: I don’t know, 1/10? Almost no infrastructure. A neighboring town (Holden) recently redid their Main Street and provided a bike lane, which is quite useful to me as a biker, but that is a huge exception to the rule. And, frankly, there’s very little courtesy from the drivers in rural Massachusetts, particularly on the more heavily-traveled roads.

The very lucky thing for me is that most local streets are not badly congested as they are in other parts of the state/country. And, the saving grace (for me) is that I have rail trail access a little over a mile from my house that is actually useful to me for both exercise (when not entirely iced over, that is) and for access to two of the neighboring towns that I need to go to frequently.

 

[spokewrench]

Central Massachusetts: I don’t know, 1/10? Almost no infrastructure. A neighboring town (Holden) recently redid their Main Street and provided a bike lane, which is quite useful to me as a biker, but that is a huge exception to the rule. And, frankly, there’s very little courtesy from the drivers in rural Massachusetts, particularly on the more heavily-traveled roads.

The very lucky thing for me is that most local streets are not badly congested as they are in other parts of the state/country. And, the saving grace (for me) is that I have rail trail access a little over a mile from my house that is actually useful to me for both exercise (when not entirely iced over, that is) and for access to two of the neighboring towns that I need to go to frequently.

I was in Holden on June 9, 1953 when I watched the tornado destroy my neighborhood 5 miles away. I'd just finished kindergarten. A little girl who lived near me was riding her bike on an errand. Her parents identified her mangled bike, but she was missing for three days. She'd been found up on a utility pole, impaled on a climbing step. She couldn't speak to identify herself until the swelling in her face went down. She came through fine. There were a lot of very resilient people in Worcester. Bicyclists didn't need infrastructure because if automobilists thought they owned the road, they didn't show it.

 

[Chazmo]

I was in Holden on June 9, 1953 when I watched the tornado destroy my neighborhood 5 miles away. I'd just finished kindergarten. A little girl who lived near me was riding her bike on an errand. Her parents identified her mangled bike, but she was missing for three days. She'd been found up on a utility pole, impaled on a climbing step. She couldn't speak to identify herself until the swelling in her face went down. She came through fine. There were a lot of very resilient people in Worcester. Bicyclists didn't need infrastructure because if automobilists thought they owned the road, they didn't show it.

Holy crap… That’s a wild story, spokewrench!

I imagine Holden 70 years ago was a different world.