>Try it. You might be surprised that these bike lanes have dead ends or obstacles or just astonishingly crappy terrain. So much this. We have some fantastic bi

>Try it. You might be surprised that these bike lanes have dead ends or obstacles or just astonishingly crappy terrain. So much this. We have some fantastic bike trails in my area, but one of the primary arteries just suddenly ends about two miles from the downtown core. The official, city-endorsed route the rest of the way runs on normal surface streets. Coincidentally, the closest I've come to being involved in a serious accident on my bike was through that section when some jackass behind me decided I shouldn't be on the road and tried to force me into a gutter. The kicker being I had just pushed off from a red light and was actually moving faster than the car in the left lane beside me at that point. Sometimes bikes don't have any choice but to be on the road, and sometimes they're even told to by the local government.