Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Commuting by Detour

Commuted in to work today.

Normally, the commute is a short, easy ride of about 7.5 miles. Today, with all the construction going on around Orem, the commute ended up being a longer, frustrating ride.

I don't really like to have to think when I ride. But this ride was riddled with lots of thinking about detours and trying to plan the easiest, simplest route that would take me away from the bulldozers, tar, and massive holes in the ground. Today's commute ended up being 14.5 miles. All due to construction.

Orem roads are going to be the best, smoothest roads when all this is over, right?

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Orem's game plan is to make the roads as bike unfriendly as possible. Let's make every road 4 lanes with no shoulder, 50 mph speed limit (meaning everyone drives 60), and a stop light every block and a half. It's like Orange County, but worse.