They plow them too. Same city, different street, this week:
You a normal bicycle road in the Netherlands in every town. All equipped with own traffic signs and own traffic lights. Even with broader bicycle expressways cross country between towns.
Yeah but those would never work in American because our needs are special. We’re “special needs” /s
I’m going to hit my head on that tree’s branches
One of the best things about recumbents is I’d go right under it
There used to be a few branches like that on the sidewalk to my grocery store. I just bought a pair of shears and read up on how to prune safely.
yeah there’s a bigger tree further up this stretch that I constantly have to duck under
Fuck it, take maintenance into your own hand and snap the offending branches off. It takes 10 seconds so even if someone sees you do it and cares about it, they won’t have time to react before you bike away.
That automotive crossing in frame center is seriously bad vibes. The car parking immediately adjacent to the driveway - A driveway that presumably leads to more car parking - Means zero bike visibility for drivers turning right off the street. That’s a near-guaranteed cyclist injury or death in the future, which becomes even more likely the smaller the cyclist is. None of the road signs seem to warn of the presence of the bike lane. And there’s another car crossing 20 feet after that! Aesthetically this lane looks pleasing to the North American eye but I expect it wouldn’t actually pass muster in a place like NL.
It’s certainly a move in the right direction but I’d stop short of calling it “good” when it’s not even safe.
Wow this is what I first noticed as well. But then I thought at least it’s better than what we have in my city, which is nothing.
I used to live in Somerville! Good town.
I also had my arm broken by a reckless driver hit and run on my bike there, so I’m happy to see bike infrastructure improving a bit.
Any improvement is good improvement. All of the “that’s it?” comments are wild
Beautiful, I just wish they hadn’t insisted on keeping the parallel parking and planted some trees instead.
i disagree. There are good and bad separate bike lanes.
In this one, cyclists will be overlooked a lot when crossing the lane. They are hidden behind parked cars.
edit: apologies in advance. I am glad you built this one, which is already a good step in the right direction.
This is literally how 99 percent of the separate bike lanes in NL are built. Check Not Just Bikes on Nebula.
Not correct. And misleading. I know not just bikes well. Infrastructure is way more than one bike lane. It is also about how traffic crosses a bike lane. The crossing is slowed down by speedbumps (?) or the bike path is elevated by a curb, etc. and a wide area of visibility is provided, so they are visible before crossing. And most importantly, the car drivers are taught about it. What i mean is, that like in this foto, might work well in the Netherlands, but not so much in other countries.
It is part of a much larger plan. But in the Netherlands it also started small, and took all the way until the 1990s when it started to scale.
exactly. And if they scale, correct, adapt, then this is a good step. But this hidden bike lane alone is not ‘what good bike lane design looks like’
