Wayne and Susan's route is one tenth of a mile of residental street, then three quarters of a mile on a narrow two-lane collector which curves and has some limited sight distance and hills. Then they travel down a hilly five-lane arterial with fifteen foot outside lanes for about two miles. Finally, they wind their way through a congested downtown. John uses mostly urban arterials, with half a mile of bike path that he often avoids as it is usually unmaintained in winter. He passes through one other signalized intersection, and many stop sign intersections.
Some sections are almost rural in nature.
Others are busy shopping centers. In the warmer months, John likes to take a long ride on the way home at least three days of the week for at least twenty miles. He rides down town to watch the tour ships come in, or he rides out to a glacier to watch the tourists. Ken travels up over a hill on a residental road to a newly four-laned road without much traffic. He turns off of that after a quarter of a mile and climbs up to the brow of the mountain before dropping down to the city on a steep, winding, narrow road.