It’s no secret that Google is slowly taking over the world. They control a good chunk of the world’s online content and a whole lotta the population’s personal information (forever), they’ve copied the world’s books, mapped the world’s streets and skies and most recently, the nation’s bike routes.
When you go to Google Maps, select your starting and ending location and choose “bicycling” from the drop-down menu of transportation methods. They already have data on bike lanes, recommended streets and trails for 150 cities nationwide. With all the one-way streets and hills in this town, we admit biking can be a little tricky. Personally, we gave it up once we realized biking up a hill was more work than it was worth (especially when you live 3 blocks from campus). read more »
