I really thought this was impossible. I mean, I live in New Jersey for crying out loud. Everyone needs a car. Public transportation in the suburbs is about a rare as a Bengal tiger and about as fickle as the weather in New England. It just doesn't get you to where you need to go. The other joke I hear is that walking is the South Jersey driving. You see a lot of people walking for miles and miles because there just isn't any other way. My work place is 11 miles from my house. No way to walk. The quickest way to get there is to take Route 73, and open battlefield filled with driving commuters out for blood. No way to bike that, as people would rather put their own children's lives at risk than put their cell phones down for a second to use their blinkers. For two years that we have been in this office I thought I was stuck in my car. Then, as chance would have it, driving a car no longer became an option for me. I had to find another way. I turned the matter over and over in my head, read the maps, checked public transit schedules, and google mapped the heck out of the situation until I found a solution.
I want to write this blog to show you that biking to work is a thing that you can do too. It's not as scary as it seems! Maybe you'll learn a thing or two from my tales, and not make the same mistakes I did. I want to let you know that biking to work is a really rewarding experience that most of us with access to a bike or a bus can do. I'm going to tell you tips and tricks that I learned in order to hopefully make your life a little easier.
I'm not some biking enthusiast. I'm not some weird hippie. I'm just a chick with a bike that had to find an alternate route to work when her car went down. So let me tell you some of the lessons I learned along the way, so hopefully you'll consider biking to work on Fridays....
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