I asked four people who commute by bicycle eastbound over the I-90 bridge to Microsoft main campus what route they take, and they gave three different answers. I’ve given them meaningless names just to tell them apart. <\/p>\n
First half (markers A1 through A5)<\/a> | Second half (markers B1 through B5)<\/a>. First half (markers C1 through C5)<\/a> | Second half (markers D1 through D5)<\/a>. You can avoid the hazardous intersection by taking a left onto NE 24th St. and turning right onto 156th Ave NE. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n First half (markers E1 through E5)<\/a> | Second half (markers F1 through F5)<\/a>. As with the blue route, you can avoid the hazardous intersection by taking a left onto NE 24th St. and turning right onto 156th Ave NE. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n I haven’t tried any of these routes myself since I live on the north side of town, and if I need to head to Mercer Island, I start from my house, not from work. Still, these are useful routes to know, so I’m recording them here for reference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked four people who commute by bicycle eastbound over the I-90 bridge to Microsoft main campus what route they take, and they gave three different answers. I’ve given them meaningless names just to tell them apart. The yellow route First half (markers A1 through A5) | Second half (markers B1 through B5). Animated version: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-33513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" I asked four people who commute by bicycle eastbound over the I-90 bridge to Microsoft main campus what route they take, and they gave three different answers. I’ve given them meaningless names just to tell them apart. The yellow route First half (markers A1 through A5) | Second half (markers B1 through B5). Animated version: […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Pro: Avoids downtown Bellevue Con: You’re stuck on Bel-Red <\/p>\n\n
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Pro: Avoids downtown Bellevue and Bel-Red Con: Extremely hazardous intersection at the end <\/p>\n\n
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Pro: Overall low exposure to traffic Con: Tricky left turn in Factoria, extremely hazardous intersection at the end <\/p>\n\n