This is right outside my door, just clipping my cleats on the pedals now.
Sidewalks and parks are a strategy for getting to the path without any entanglements with automobiles
Rolling out through Addison Circle.
Here I can either take the street or the sidewalk, neither is much of a threat yet.
Cutting through the path between buildings.
Crossing the freeway without having to mess with the cars by using the almost abandoned railway bridge.
Still no traffic, cutting behind the shopping centers I pass by.
So far I haven't had to ride on any roads, this is still sidewalk riding for me.
This is the one danger spot. Couple hundred yards across this bridge, I have to be extremely careful here because I'm on the road with the cars. There is a sidewalk on the other side of the concrete wall, but it's full of broken glass and the street sweeper machine can't get to it so unless traffic is really bad I don't go there. If I do, I have to walk the bike.
I'm across the bridge here, so immediately back to the sidewalks.
Last sidewalk before jumping across to the left into the neighborhoods.
Adrenaline pumping here, but it's my last crossing before jumping to the neighborhood at left.
Now I'm in the neighborhoods for a few miles until the path starts. It's mostly like this, so you wouldn't think it at all dangerous, but I've been hit by a car in exactly this situation, and another time barely missed - the car passed me on the right side ON THE SIDEWALK to dodge me. Because of this, I ride AGAINST the traffic on the opposite side of the street, crossing back over only when an oncoming car is approaching. I ride through the neighborhoods with the basic idea that I am invisible, therefore it is completely MY job to dodge the cars.
I have to cross Hillcrest at Meadowbrook, but it's just crossing it, don't have to ride on it.
My neighborhood ride goes through some pretty nice areas.
This has always been one of Dallas' most expensive neighborhoods, it is now being bulldozed one house at a time, as the old ranch style homes are being replaced by the McMansions
I cheated and put this photo in the wrong album. It's actually west of the lake in Lakewood, not north of the path to the lake.
Last tenth of a mile down Peyton before hitting the trail.
