Local women take to biking as primary transportation
By Rebecca Mabry
Sunday April 5, 2009
Heather Coit
Joyce Mast prepares to cross Wright Street on her way to Everitt Lab in Urbana. Mast does not drive a car. She rides her bike for pleasure and transportation.
It's raining off and on. The temps are hovering below 50. People driving by likely have their car heaters on. Windshield wipers wiping. Radios humming.
But Joyce Mast pedals down Green Street on her way to her campus job. She's not chilly in a black wool sweater under the rain-proof nylon jacket. The bike helmet keeps her hairdo intact. And as she will tell you, rain or not, she loves – that's a big L-O-V-E-S – not having to go to work inside the box of a car.
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