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During my epic bike ride yesterday, there was one section of Nimitz Hwy that I found to be especially scary.  On google maps it’s marked with a green dotted line.  There is no legend/key on the map, and my personal “intuition” is that this mean something like “ok, but not great, for bicycles”.  Attempting to ride there, it was clearly evil to me.

Using the “report a problem” link (bottom right hand corner of google map display) I filed a request to either provide a key, change the color of the green dotted lines, or remove it from that section of road.

My previous experience with reporting problems turned out well.  I got them to add this section of bike path to the bicycle layer:

If you know about a more collaborative place for this kind of information, or know what dotted green lines really mean, please drop me a line.

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Here is the link to the google map.

I wanted to ride my bike to the flickr friday meetup, but cheated by driving 1/2 way.  Even still, according to google maps I rode 28 miles there and back.  I need to go back and figure out exactly which portions are evil and tell google to update their map.  (I’ve done that before, and it actually works.)

Google maps claims that Nimitz is a bike route, but there are portions that are pretty scary.  Both on the way out and on the way back, I ended up getting off Nimitz, and going on back roads between Nimitz and Dillingham.  On the way back I ended up on a 2 foot ride strip of grass between a warehouse-style building on the right, and a curb with traffic on my left.  Not ridable at all.  I was walking my bike.

I was prepared to whine and complain about the flickr friday location, since it’s so hard to get to from where I am, but when I got there, I realized that it’s a fabulous place.  Fantastic views!  The ride up was actually not as bad as I feared.  Along E. Manoa Rd there were places where I was riding in the grass, and there were a few places where I was in my lowest gear, but there wasn’t anywhere where I had to walk the bike.

Going back I wanted to go thru Waikiki.  I came across IT&B which seems like a cool and friendly bike shop.  They have an air pump outside the shop for anybody to check/inflate their tires.  They told me next time I should just bring my bike in rather than locking it outside.

Riding thru Waikiki was a bit challenging.  Since I was going The Wrong Way up Kalakaua, I rode on the sidewalk.  There are a lot of people in Waikiki.

Overall, a great day out riding and visiting with cool people (the flickr crowd).

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Converting existing cars to electric sounds like a marvelous idea.

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