Comments on: Google Adds ‘Bike There’

By: Souleur

Souleur — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:30:48 +0000

Well, that is neat to play with….now commuters can find the shortest most direct route to work. I was looking however for the google button ‘no hussie SUV driver to cut cyclists off by sphincter-tightening righthand turn’…but didn’t find it, so I just hit the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and amazingly it worked out close enough. Will keep playing with it, thanks to google!! kudos.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:05:02 +0000

Doesn’t work so well in the Denver Metro area in Colorado. They seem to be missing the connections where paths cross streets so it kicks you onto the street since there is no connectivity between the path segments. Probably looking for the user community to clean it up I’m guessing.

By: Robot

Robot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:31:14 +0000

Pretty cool that Google picked the same commute route for me that I have picked, avoiding most bike lanes but taking in the river. They think it should take me 52 minutes. I do it in 35. I think that makes me a Cat II commuter.

By: Padraig

Padraig — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:27:46 +0000

Yeah, I’m working on that whole getting everybody to read RKP thing. I hear we’re most cyclists’ third favorite blog.

By: James

James — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:17:56 +0000

I just got done playing with it and found the route choice for my daily commute…interesting. It does default to bike paths which took my commute around the long way! It offered up 2 other options which were closer to my usual route and I amended one of the routes to my usual one. The one thing I think they need is a legend for all of the green lines and polka dots (I don’t think everyone reads RKP, sorry to say, and won’t benefit from your advice listed above as to what the lines mean!). It will be interesting to use on routes I don’t usually take to place around town. It’s very nice to have a mapping service that has the cycling option. Google should be lauded for their efforts!!