BIKE: another commuting question (North Loop to the Capitol)

[Mike Dahmus]

Becky none wrote:

>Hi - 
>
>I've been off my bike for a few months while I looked
>for a new place to live, got it, packed & am now
>moving. After I recover from this really exhausting
>experience, I want to start riding to work again. (oh
>yeah - and I've got to e-mail Kryptonite about my
>lock) Anyway, from North Loop & Burnet, I plan to ride
>over to Guadalupe, past the IM fields, & jag over to
>Speedway. I used to ride Speedway through campus - but
>apparently I can't any more? (is this just not allowed
>or physically impossible?) Anyway, how is an
>out-of-shape rider supposed to get through campus to
>get to the Capitol? That was always my safest,
>least-traffic-and-hills route to work. I need a way
>that's safe (the only part of Guadalupe I'll ride on
>is the part by the fields, where there's much less
>traffic) & easy -- when I say I'm out of shape, I'm
>really not kidding.
>  
>
Despite claiming in their long-range plan to be wanting vast increases 
in cycling to campus, the sum total of UT's proposals for bikes has been 
to close Speedway. Believe me, we have been and continue to raise this 
issue with them repeatedly.

UT's solution would be that you head over to Duval and then go through 
campus on San Jacinto. This is a bit more stressful entering campus than 
the old route would have been, but the big change is that when going 
through campus you get a couple of extra stop signs, and a much higher 
chance of getting hit by a parking car than you did on Speedway.

It's still safer and less stressful than Guadalupe.

- MD