Your towns Cycling infrastructure

[ingola]

Cycling infrastructure it's been coming up as late in the area where I live I'd be really curious how other cities handle it.

This is Cornwall Ontario Canada we pretty much have marked off areas on the side of the road people use for parking. I'm @MattiThundrrr will have more

 

[BDC]

Brisbane is OK for infrastructure - still ongoing, but getting better.

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/thi...ctivities/riding-in-brisbane/cycling-brisbane


Maps here:

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/sit...risbane_-_riding_in_brisbane_guide_-_2022.pdf

 

[Pondo]

I live in an old gold rush town in the Sierra that is now a popular tourist and retiree community. Old roads in not good condition usually without shoulders. So basically no bike infrastructure. I see a lot more people riding ebikes these days and they can keep up with traffic on the slower roads. I mostly ride dirt myself where car traffic is less of an issue. Just watch for the cow pies.

 

[ingola]

I live in an old gold rush town in the Sierra that is now a popular tourist and retiree community. Old roads in not good condition usually without shoulders. So basically no bike infrastructure. I see a lot more people riding ebikes these days and they can keep up with traffic on the slower roads. I mostly ride dirt myself where car traffic is less of an issue. Just watch for the cow pies.

Trails is my go to I drank enough beer underage to know where all the trails and short cuts are

 

[Pondo]

Trails is my go to I drank enough beer underage to know where all the trails and short cuts are

Hey, I resemble that remark!

 

[BartRidesEternal]

This is an interesting topic, although me posting pictures here seems... not fair

 

[BartRidesEternal]

This is an interesting topic, although me posting pictures here seems... not fair

The red in the Dutch flag is a cycle lane, is what I like to think

 

[Pondo]

This is an interesting topic, although me posting pictures here seems... not fair

Some pics from a country that takes bike infrastructure seriously would definitely be fair and interesting.

 

[BartRidesEternal]

Some pics from a country that takes bike infrastructure seriously would definitely be fair and interesting.

I will take some pictures on my next ride! Thanks for the encouragement

 

[ingola]

The red in the Dutch flag is a cycle lane, is what I like to think

I'd love to see it

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Ingola started this discussion in another forum as well. One of the guys in the Netherlands shared his bike lanes, I'm not exactly sure how it's supposed to work. The car gets less than a car width:

"It is a road, but with very wide cycle lanes, so you can ride next to each other and cars have to go around you. I am not so sure it is a good idea, I didn't feel much safer"

They just repaved the main street running through my neighborhood. I'll get some pics of the newly extended bike lanes, they're really wide, well marked, and smooooooth like buttah

 

[Pondo]

Ingola started this discussion in another forum as well. One of the guys in the Netherlands shared his bike lanes, I'm not exactly sure how it's supposed to work. The car gets less than a car width:
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"It is a road, but with very wide cycle lanes, so you can ride next to each other and cars have to go around you. I am not so sure it is a good idea, I didn't feel much safer"

They just repaved the main street running through my neighborhood. I'll get some pics of the newly extended bike lanes, they're really wide, well marked, and smooooooth like buttah

The car culture here is so dominant I think there would be some kind of revolt if they tried something like that. But I like how it gives motorists an idea of how much space they should give cyclists when passing.

 

[ingola]

We have these paths that go no where to

But the city thought it would be a great idea to stick these metal posts in the middle

Am I the only one who sees how this could be a problem

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

If they don't put the post in the middle, people drive cars on them. No kidding. There are videos of people driving on them out there. Hard to believe. I saw one where a lady had to move off the path with her baby in a stroller.

My ghetto town has made progress with some MUPs in recent years surprisingly. It's nice to see people enjoying them.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

If they don't put the post in the middle, people drive cars on them.

They also put narrow gates at the entrance, sometimes at intervals along the path. It keeps the ATV quads off as well. Sometimes it's tricky getting thru, newer MTB bars are pretty wiiiiide.
Again, I'll have pictures later. Gotta get out for a cruise

really wide (lanes), well marked, and smooooooth like buttah

They did this is the way it should be:

Pedestrian, separated by solid division. Then bike, car, car, bike, solid separation, and pedestrian again. And barely wider than a postage stamp

They also put narrow gates at the entrance, sometimes at intervals along the path... Sometimes it's tricky getting thru, newer MTB bars are pretty wiiiiide

I guess it feels tighter when you fly through them

Duck Norris has 690 mm bars, the Brodie is 50 mm wider. Some bars are 800+, that would be a squeeze!

 

[gben]

The state I live in has laws that say a bicycle rider has a right to use the same roads that automobile drivers do, all dedicated bike paths and lanes do is give motorists another excuse to yell "get off the road !!! " to cyclists instead of learning that bicycles have the right to be there and normalizing bicycle use of public roads and highways. This is why dedicated bicycle lanes are counter-productive and not a good idea. That should be pretty simple to understand and see.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The state I live in has laws that say a bicycle rider has a right to use the same roads that automobile drivers do, all dedicated bike paths and lanes do is give motorists another excuse to yell "get off the road !!! " to cyclists instead of learning that bicycles have the right to be there and normalizing bicycle use of public roads and highways. This is why dedicated bicycle lanes are counter-productive and not a good idea. That should be pretty simple to understand and see.

I definitely have a different perspective to that. Regardless of normalized bicycle use, cars still outweigh us by a ton or more. My thinking is that dedicated bicycle lanes give us a space where cars aren't supposed to be, theoretically reducing the possibility of interactions between cars and cyclists. I vastly prefer a separate path for cycling, or even a bike lane, to being in the same lanes as vehicular traffic.