An Actual Bike Route

Someone said that it's not a bike route unless it's safe for an eight year old. I might not go that far, but I would say that a great many bike lanes are nothing more than a paint stripe's distance from the edge of a highway. Not so this one. This route very nearly connects north campus with points north of town. And it's a work in progress. There's going to be more. I rode it yesterday and I was always safely separated from traffic. Here's the stretch that goes west of Purdue's golf course. The distances seem shorter now than when I was a child. How is that?