Ah man, I used to live in this town. I wish the infrastructure had been this good when I was there.
They plow them too. Same city, different street, this week:
It’s frustrating how many comments are focused on comparisons to the NL. When someone does something hard that was easy for you, do you gloat or do you celebrate their efforts?
Everyone in this community knows that NL has amazing bike infra and this is normal (and better) there.
Hope to see more permanent protected bike lanes in the US. Thanks for sharing OP
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
Post pics! It’s not that I don’t believe you, I just want to be more depressed with my country
I’m not the person you’re replying to but here’s one:
You can just do an image search for “Netherlands separated cycle lane” to see a bunch more.
Here are some videos about road design in the Netherlands you might find interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNtsWvNYKE
Thanks, super depressing! Even if we had the design of the second video drivers would pass the white line and crosswalk and wait in the bike lane to make a turn. Or to just stop when going straight. I hate it here
In my country this is “standard” bike lane.
What’s a good one look like?
Oh man I wanna bike there so bad. How’s the bikeability from Somerville to Boston?
Beautiful, I just wish they hadn’t insisted on keeping the parallel parking and planted some trees instead.
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.
Bonus points if they raise the entry from the road to the parking lot to separate things further!
They get those bonus points, you can see the grade level difference by looking at the angles of those curbs. Construction progress can be seen on google maps back in 2020: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FB8dtRKbdueiQLuQ9
I see that now! A little hard to spot at first, the construction males it much more obvious.
Ayy my hometown. Awesome to see this. Haven’t been back in quite to a while
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