My biking journey as an urban planner - part 1
I moved to Phoenix from Tempe approximately three months ago to pursue my planning internship at AECOM. I was excited and over the moon to start, but there was a problem. The office was 17 miles from where I lived, and I did not have a car to commute to in a very car-dominant city. The transit option to commute to work was one and a half hours long one way, which made the daily commute excruciating to even think of. I could have worked from home, but it was just not my thing. Thus began my move to Phoenix and my biking journey. The first week I walked to and from the office because I did not have my bike yet. The 30 minutes one-way walks would have been better if not for the sweltering 100 degrees heat in the open tree-less urbanscape of Phoenix and the uphill terrain. My routine was to get there early to avoid the heat and pat myself down before entering the office. I knew this was unsustainable, and I wanted to get out of it as soon as possible. I was scouring the internet ...