Low Exposure Dallas Cycling
I vibe-coded an app to help me find all the good roads in Dallas. Along the way, I learned these roads have a technical term: "collector roads."
Basically, a collector is a longish road that other roads feed into, and it gets the right of way. In map data, they're labeled highway=tertiary. They're nice to ride because there aren't many stops, and since they usually run through residential neighborhoods, traffic is super light.
Turns out the route I built uses them heavily, and a lot of the more popular routes in the area use them as a backbone.
I attempted a routing engine that leaned on these good roads, but the output wasn't great — mostly out-and-backs. It did make for a good reference map, though, which I exported to Google Maps for sharing. Link below.
