Routes: Manayunk to Conshohocken with Taylor Lashbrook

A speeding tractor trailer spooked Taylor Lashbrook from behind on Route 23 in Conshohocken on an otherwise peaceful September morning.

Gravel crunched violently as the vehicle swooped by her. In all fairness, when I had agreed to join Lashbrook for her morning commute, she had warned me about that segment of her ride.

“They almost blow me off my bike,” Lashbrook said.

Lashbrook, 37, is a regulatory editor who lives in Wissahickon, a neighborhood sandwiched between East Falls and Manayunk in Philadelphia. She’s a new bike commuter, having only made the two-wheeled trip to Conshohocken for five months. Although she’s a rookie when it comes to riding through city streets, the Phoenixville native refuses to be intimidated by the usual obstacles that Philadelphia’s biking community faces everyday.

Full article at: https://bicyclecoalition.org/blog/#sthash.vkR9o2Z5.dpbs