A report on my first bike commute today

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by creekster

Too dangerous in what way?

Very heavily trafficked streets with no shoulder or bike lane, a million cross streets, and lots of fast traffic. No sane cyclist would ride on the two access streets to my work.

Imagine you lived on one side of downtown San Francisco, and you had to ride all the way to the other side and there were no side streets. That's sort of my situation, at least for the last part of the ride to work.