So I’ve been biking in the area around the University of San Diego for a while. At the bottom of the hill is Fashion Valley mall, and I tend to keep my bicycling to the West (towards the Ocean) from there. There’s mostly strip malls to the East, so there’s not a lot of point in heading that way, and the only route that direction is taking Friar’s road. Friar’s road has bike lanes, and is great for getting back and forth except where it hits the 163, where it turns into a gigantic mess of entrance and exit ramps, with the bike lane doing it’s usual disappear-and-reappear act all over the place. So I wanted to find away around that. It turns out there are two options: the on-road way and the off-road way.
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