Among downtown’s largest open spaces, Scope Plaza is perfect for bikes. And dogs.

Like other four letter words that begin F-U-, when we overuse a word we risk degrading its meaning.

There are bike-friendly routes to be found in Norfolk. In fact, there’s a whole network that is passed by, unnoticed, by speeding motorists: parallel side streets and slower byways, where the speed limit doesn’t exceed 25mph, and the streets are bare of traffic-controlling yellow and white lines.