[Yak] airport bike-friendliness

[jeffry buechler]

here are a couple of my experiences:

denver:
if you're headed toward boulder, don't try to ride the toll road.  or  
at least know that someone in a state-farm insurance van will demand  
that you leave at the nearest exit, which, yes, is in kansas.  he  
will tell you that he's kicking you off of a less-trafficked, wide- 
shouldered road onto heavily-trafficked, no-shouldered roads, "for  
your safety."  methinks it's all about their liability bottom line.   
(it was still kick-ass to ride home from the airport.  45 miles  
definitely takes away the flight stiffness.)

dulles:
the WO&D path runs nearby and can be accessed pretty easily to get  
one well east.  haven't yet tried it from the airport exactly, but i  
have ridden it from nearby to my brother's in annandale.

portland, or:
i didn't ride right to the airport, but like at national airport(i  
refuse to call it reagan), it's easy to ride the rail, and getting  
anywhere in the city is a snap that way.

o'hare:
likewise, i've only taken the bike, already packed, on the el.  don't  
think i'd want to try to ride right to it.

cheers,





















































































-jeffry

  "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country  
best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus  
you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a  
high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of  
country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."   - 
Ernest Hemingway