People have said it but it was cold AF so everyone's heat had to work harder so the bill will be higher depending on your home.

My house was built in 1930 and is double bricked with layers of asbestos between the bricks and my walls which themselves are stupid thick as they are lath and plaster.

Heating for me wasn't all that much higher but I feel bad for people with trash Ryan homes or people living in apartments where the landlords don't care how much you pay for utilities

I just posted on this thread that I do sometimes use Freeport but it's also got it's issues.

Most of the time now we will toss the bikes into my wife's Honda Odyssey and then park it at the Washington Blvd Bike Track and then go up Negley and into town. Not ideal as we are taking up a parking space others could use and it requires the use of a car.

I'm glad to see the investments in dedicated trails as riding on roads is always a terrible experience because most drivers are assholes and feel the need to pass you no matter what.

Case in point, I have three e-bikes one of which is a recumbent trike that I use to go get groceries, this trike is massively kitted out, 1,500 watt front hub, 1000 watt mid drive and two 1,500 watt rear hubs. Have to have 4, 52v, battery packs to run them all at once and a custom controller to sync the motors to a single controller so that I only need a single throttle and peddle assist system.

I normally only run with two battery packs for the mid and front as all 4 packs take up most of my rear cargo basket but sometimes I'll run all 4 for the sheer power of it. Last week I took the trike over the Hulton Bridge and down Freeport Rd to Aspinwall. Normally I ride in the lane that is closed due to rock slides but it's starting to get harder to ride on that side since it's closed to traffic and there are some minor slides on it in parts.

I decided to ride on the actual road as I had all four packs and was going 50mph from the bridge to Powers Run Rd, even with a trike that kind of speed has a massive pucker factor but that still was not good enough for the cars. Now that section of the road has a 55mph speed limit so ok I could see drivers still wanting to pass but past Powers Run road when you start getting into Blawnox the speed limit drops to 40mph so I dropped my speed to 44mph and guess what? The drivers still felt the absolute need to pass me even though I was going over the posted speed limit which was insanely annoying because Freeport is narrow in Blawnox so these cars were passing me with inches in between us.

Living in Oakmont I only have two choices to head towards town, go over the Hulton and down Freeport or do a suicide run down Allegheny River Blvd. I would love to see them convert the rail line that runs through Oakmont and Verona down to the Brilliant Branch Bridge into a trail or just toss a trail next to the existing rail.

Edit:. Just to be clear all the power in my Trike isn't to be an ass and go faster than allowed it's there to help me haul a bunch of groceries up the giant hills leading to my house. The trike is already really heavy and with it loaded with groceries it gets to be too much for me to climb steep hills without a lot of power. I can't stand and pump to increase power so I need the hubs. I'm trying to reduce my impact on the environment so I try to use the trike to get stuff as much as I can.

Yeah having went from Oakmont to the Strip via the ARB I was terrified the entire time. I had to ask my dad to come get me and the bike in his truck and drive me back because I didn't want to ride back on the ARB.