JohnH wrote:

Your route sounds like an even better candidate for a bicycle
commute.

Yes, if you live in the south. Bikes only work about half the year
here in northern PA.


What causes them to cease functioning the other half of the year?

Snow and ice mainly and the road salt would likely ruin a bike in now
time at all. I can just see the alloy parts after two weeks of riding
in road salt.


If you meant "it's too cold to ride", consider about twice as many people
regularily commute by bicycle in PA than in GA...

Cold is a problem also. I live 22 miles from where I work and it takes
me 90 minutes to ride that far in the summer (hint: it isn't level where
I live). That would be a long ride wearing a lot of clothes at zero or
below.


http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/survey/commuter.htm

I'm not surprised. Most northerners are a lot tougher than southerners.
:-)


Matt