It’s really dangerous to ride a bike on the roads in my 3rd world city even walking is dangerous due to bike lanes basically being ignored, motorcycles weaving around traffic, and poor nighttime lighting.
I just thought that dedicated bike/walking only roads connecting the major parts of my city would be a big boost for safety and I think it would greatly reduce the amount of people using cars.
Has this been tried somewhere else? Was it successful?
My home town built a bicycle-only bridge with a road surface that’s heated to slightly above freezing in winter.
It’s the shortest connection between 2 major districts:
There’s also a bicycle tunnel under the old town:
There’s a truck on the bicycle bridge?
Yeah, as soon as the bridge was finished, a truck tried to drive over it to take a shortcut.
They had to fix the bridge, fined the driver, and I believe built a barrier.
/r/fuckcars
Classic
I very much dislike when a municipality feels the need to drench their flagship bicycle infrastructure project in road paint. It adds hundreds of thousands in cost just to seal away the grippy asphalt (Did you know that asphalt pavement was originally popularized by cyclists?) under a thick layer of polymer that invariably gets slick when wet, and communicates a subtext that bike infra isn’t normal and common but so special and rare that we have to mark it with an incongruous color of paint throughout. Feels so very car brained and pandery.
Sorry for the rant. Both of those projects still look very fun and useful.