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Same for Dallas. My Friday home commute takes 45 min to an hour at 4 pm. It's only 9 miles.

I find it hard to believe one could get into the west side of FW from downtown Dallas in one hour during rush hour.. It's been 8 years since I lived/worked there, but I can't imagine traffic has gotten better.

Why not just bike it?

Sure, if you want to get hit by a car and breathe in tremendous amounts of carbon monoxide.

Most roads in Texas cities are extremely unfriendly for bike traffic.

Marfa is pretty bike friendly ;)

Not to mention arriving at work looking like a wet dishrag. Texas is pretty hot.

I think you will find you are breathing in that carbon monoxide in your car as well.

not true in dallas; every time i went out for a ride, people would just move over

it's a lot friendlier than NYC where folks will honk at you

There is almost zero long-distance biking infrastructure in the DFW metroplex, and drivers tend to be hostile to bicyclists. When I biked (casually and recreationally), I would stay on the sidewalks as much as I could, when they existed - which largely limited me to suburban and semi-urban areas.

There do exist huge and long bike trails, but they only connect arbitrary points of the city - imagine New York, but with all but two subway lines suddenly removed.

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