Mazed
Typically, bicycling in winter is a little more complicated but manageable.
But after 5 feet of snow has fallen within a month here, this winter is nowhere near manageable. It’s pretty unpleasant to bicycle, I admit it. I’ve considered other options but all of them are even more unpleasant.
And just when getting around Boston was bad, it got worse as public transit started failing and streets became fully gridlocked making bicycling pretty much impossible.
So I turned to walking which suddenly became the fastest option. The problem is that cities only only plow for people in cars. There’s nothing like record snowfall to show the inequality. Walking in winter in a city is like navigating an impossible maze.
Bikeyface: Thanks for the update. I’ve been thinking about you in Boston and wondering how you have been coping.
You should seriously consider moving south.
I hope things get better!!
Bikeyface, you should check out Bike Like Crazy and follow her winter biking adventure in Upstate New York. 🙂 https://bikelikecrazy.wordpress.com/
Keli, thanks for the link! That’s another awesome bike blog!
… or move to a climate where we consider a couple of inches to be an unusual and heavy snowfall.:)
(Mind you, London grinds to a halt with a couple of inches of the “wrong kind of snow” !)
@Flexagain as it happens Boston had London mayor Boris in town for this most recent snowfall and he got stuck here beyond his schedule; so, that was amusing