• Flying Squid
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    -42 years ago

    Skipping through the video, those look like roads dedicated to bicycles. Unless you repurpose an entire city to be bicycle only, which is a very unlikely scenario in most places in this world with harsh winters, that really doesn’t apply to the way snowplows usually work.

    • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      “Roads dedicated to bicycles”

      What do you think good, safe and dedicated bicycle infrastructure looks like? Cars and bicycles has vastly different needs and therefore should have differently built roadways.

      When your city repaves its 4-6 lane roads, it has the choice to change some of those car lanes to bicycle/pedestrian/multiuse paths.

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        2 years ago

        How do you think you build a good, safe and dedicated bicycle infrastructure in a city which has not been designed for it? There are roads here, like the one where my office is, that only have one access route. How do even get the delivery trucks in if you make that only road bike-only? And if you say “just build another road,” who is going to pay for that?

        Also, almost every road here has two lanes, one in each direction.

        • @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          How do you think you build a good, safe and dedicated bicycle infrastructure in a city which has not been designed for it?

          The Netherlands did it. Just change construction requirements/guidelines, zoning, etc, get some biking activists, and wait 50 years. All of these problems have already been solved.

          And to answer your specific question, I think they normally close off roads to regular cars but let delivery vehicles go through. In the short amount of time the vehicle is there, people just bike/walk around it. And they also make smaller delivery vehicles, including branded cargo bikes for when the situation fits.

          • Flying Squid
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            12 years ago

            and wait 50 years

            Because we all know cities are usually able to plan things 50 years in advance…

            • @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              No. Because infrastructure needs to be replaced every so often and after 50 years you’ll have gone through most of it. 50 years ago is around when the Netherlands switched from building car infrastructure to also building bike infrastructure.