Staying alive on a bike in Knoxville
My first year out of UT I lived in a nice house just a mile away from the big Kay's Ice Cream in South Knoxville (the one with the big ice cream cone on Chapman Hwy). From there, one of my roommates would bike his way to campus each day. Noah wasn't afraid to bend the rules of the road, like biking on the sidewalk as he crossed the bridge. But then, Noah was known to do a little graffiti back in the day...
Anyway, Patrick Beeson has a revelatory guide to commuting via bike on his blog. It certainly helps that he is 2.5 miles from work, but I wonder if our greenways or side streets help others bike to work? I'm hopeful our country will someday make bike traffic more user-friendly, like Holland. Perhaps when gas hits $10 a gallon?
posted by Victor Agreda, Jr. at
1:42 PM
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I think the tipping point will be $4 a gallon, at least for awhile.
I rode everywhere on my bike in both undergrad and grad school, and loved it. You get so used to being able to go exactly where you want despite traffic that it makes any trip in a car a chore.
Next purchase: commuting specific bike and fenders.
Bicycling in Knoxville is actually very liberally protected by law.
http://www.knoxtrans.org/plans/bikeprog/hb_view.pdf
When I get my terra trike, I plan to commute to work (weather permitting... Chapman is Heck when the roads are wet) and see about testing out these laws.
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