The horror of bicycling in the hell-hole of Thornton Colorado.
I've struggled to bicycle, my chief form of transportation, on York St. in Thornton for the past year while KB Homes has built a new housing development along this road.
I ride a mountain bike so I can ride on the dirt alongside the road and stay out of the way of cars. That is until KB Homes came to town. First they added new driveways along the road and put in 3" diameter rocks that makes bicycling on the east side of the road impossible. Then huge 18 wheeler trucks began bringing in dirt and they've rutted the west side of the road to the point that I could no longer use the dirt alonside of the road.
Still, I've dodged the 100 or more trucks-a-day and cars for a year. Until today. Today, I crashed. Luckily, I'm okay, but my glasses were broken and I can't afford another pair. Now I bicycle while almost blind. That's just another cost of our poor roads I guess. Meanwhile rich peopel benefit from KB Homes including Fraud Street.
The so-called news media bragged about another road in Thornton, a public-private effort on Quebec street. This road did have a bike lane in one direction for a quarter of a mile and then it switches to the other direction before it ends. There is no shoulder after that, which includes the section known as dead-man's curve. Great job, Thornton, pat yourselves on the back some more.
The LTE section of the Denver Post is full of letters about bicycling--mostly anti-bike. You'd think that after a recent hit-and-run driver killing a cyclist, they'd stop mouthing off about it. Yet they persisist. It really is a joke because there's like one bicyclist for every ten thousand (or a ratio of infinity-to-one) cars where I am.
The problem is, that there are just too many cars on the road.
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