Camera's with me, as always is now. Deep puddles in cratered gravel shoulder reflect roadway nicely. Snapping pix of Miller Road's bike lanes in sections, as YVR calls them. Waiting for the perfect snap. The speeder, steel and wheels the closest to road-edge, and impossible for any cyclist to share the road with. Share the Road...riiight. What committee thought that up? So here, a couple snaps of reality, to go along with a rant.
Then a moment with a roadie. Passing pretty green Cannondale.
"What're y'takin' pictures of?"
I explain. Substitute "Going in a letter to YVR" for any yada'yada re my blog.
"Yeah," he says, "they'll try t'get by ya, if y'don't take the lane. And then they'll just about run y'down, they're goin' so fast. Nice up ahead, anyway."
"Yeah," I say, "four lanes and even faster, like they stuck Steveston Highway on one end of a beat-up old road."
"Yeah" — he's smiling — "last year."
"Last spring, yeah."
"Like everything round here's half-finished."
"And nothing on their website about when they'll do the rest."
"Well, maybe this year."
"Yeah, we can hope."
This should've been up over a week ago. Been busy. Overnight, they filled in these potholes. Topped them up with sharp gravel. None of it looks especially graded. Doesn't look as if the thirty-year old other half of Miller Road is about to be re-paved. But I can hope.
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