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This morning, I came across some interesting street designs.
A cautionary tale. (1/9)
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)
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& #39;t raised is for the parking when there& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s valid cases for advisory bike lanes but if you& #39;ll end up with the first example, did you win?
Conclusion:
Aim higher.
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- most of these lanes are legally bike lanes, but they do look like advisory lanes.
- yes there& #39;s valid cases for advisory bike lanes but if you& #39;ll end up with the first example, did you win?
Conclusion:
Aim higher.
