E-bike rider (retaught myself to ride after 20 years).
St. Paul resident.
Communicator and marketer.
Baker and reader.
Anna Wagner Schliep
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There are absolutely bike lanes that are not heavily used. But the correct response is to analyze why they're not being used, instead of saying, "Let's rip them out!" It turns out that a strip of a paint on an otherwise busy road doesn't make people feel safe and make them want to bike.
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So I drive there weekly and am frustrated about it.
This temperature is perfect. I'm so tired of 80°+ already. If only it weren't also raining all day...
I regularly go to a place that is 2.7 miles away. Near weekly. It's close enough to feel kind of ridiculous not biking. But there is no good way to get there via bike. It's right off a separated bike path that yes, is maybe 1/2 a mile long and not connected to another good path.
Google recommends taking University Ave to Prior to this and no thank you to taking a 2 lane throughway that just has signage that says "bikes may take the full lane." I thought there'd be another route east, but the one other one involves first going south on under construction Pelham.
I'm sure kindergarten will be great, but I do wish kids got more outside time in general. This kid really seems to thrive given time to explore outside (which is what I did a ton as a kid on a farm).
I want to share his story every time an SOS person claims Summit is "perfectly safe" yet I know they'd just argue that since it's Chicago, not St. Paul and not Summit, it doesn't matter. A door lane is a door lane, though. None of them are safe.
This should not have to happen for change, either.
Kind of depends on the bike lanes, too. In my city a lot of "bike lanes" basically just had you riding in the gutter with the trash, right next to speeding cars. Not very helpful.
Genuinely feeling sad tomorrow is the last day of school for my oldest. I've loved his Nature PreK (if you're in St. Paul check it out through community ed!), it's a great group of kids and I'm already sort of lamenting that he won't come home quite as filthy from kindergarten next year.
