This morning, I came across some interesting street designs.

A cautionary tale. (1/9)

The first (and worst) one. No colour, very wide lanes. Generally no reason for not having separated bike lanes.

Not very busy, but feels very unsafe. (2/9)

The second one, slightly better due to the coloured asphalt. Still a very wide road and no real reason for lack of separated lanes. Lazy engineering. (3/9)

Some serious traffic calming though. One way at a time is actually a good idea. Decent bicycle bypasses. (4/9)

This one clearly demonstrates how silly this design is. Look how wide those lanes are. The only reason the bike lanes aren't raised is for the parking when there's clearly space to flip parking and bike lane around (5/9)

Marginally better. At least the car lane has narrowed a bit and there's no centre line. Probably would class this as an advisory bike lane which is mildly more reasonable. Still sub-standard. (6/9)

So beware. Advisory bike lanes are not easy. They require serious traffic calming and lanes that are definitely narrower than the US is used to (or willing to accept probably) (7/9)

All of these roads are considered sub-standard in NL so don't be like "but the Dutch have it, I saw it on streetview". These are mostly old designs. (8/9)

Caveats:
- most of these lanes are legally bike lanes, but they do look like advisory lanes.
- yes there's valid cases for advisory bike lanes but if you'll end up with the first example, did you win?
Conclusion:
Aim higher.