@cainmark asks:
Q6. Anyone else have trouble navigating from city to country (urban to rural) & the reverse? On the road, w/ no paths available, when the shoulders disappear.
My closest calls have all been on the "outskirts" of a city, just past suburbs, before fully becoming country.
Anyone have ideas on how to traffic engineer that to stop being a problem? Speed limits don't help when people constantly speed over them.
#BikeNire A6: Oh man, every time, anywhere I go!
I'm in an area with a large Mennonite community, who still use horses and buggies to get around. As accommodation, #WaterlooRegion has paved the shoulders on some highways to make it easier for the horses. Happily, paved shoulders also make great cycle paths, wide enough to give good separation from car traffic.
So I ride where there are paved shoulders, even when it's not the most direct route.
When I do take another route I'm on the edge of the road between the painted edge-of-road line and the gravel shoulder. Far more dangerous, and much less fun.
Last year I got a "punishment pass", where a pickup truck veered towards me, passing with only centimetres to spare. Probably to "teach that cyclist a lesson", although the only thing I learned was something about the relative IQ of pickup truck drivers.
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