Worst Bike Lanes List, Can You Beat These?

[Django]

The latest list of worst bike lanes on the planet as submitted by our readers

Fasten your helmets and saddle up for a tour of the worst bike lanes on the planet from the absurd to the downright dangerous

momentummag.com

 

[pagheca]

By all accounts, the shortest cycle path in the world is in Turin: 7.5 m long.

 

[munirider]

And I see there's a nice road grate ahead, the kind that eat skinny bike tires!

Other than that it looks real nice with the brick work and red surface.

 

[Smaug]

I need to get a pic of the latest “bike lanes” in my city.

They just rebuilt the main east-west highway going through the city. It’s four lanes in each direction, speed limit 50 mph. The “Bike lane” Is to the right of the four lanes, but the right turn lanes are on the right side of the bike lanes, so that car traffic is constantly crossing through the bike lane at high speed. Motorists completely ignore the solid vs. dashed bike lane lines. It’s suicide riding there. I’ve only done it once and it was much scarier than just riding in the city street with cars.

 

[pagheca]

In Turin they could theoretically fine a rider for riding on the road for those 7.5 metres...

But that is the mentality today:
- cars: we need absolutely to build another superhighway at a cost of 100M$/km!!!!
- bicycles: take that bucket of white paint and paint a strip on the ground on that road.

I hope that will change one day.

 

[Smaug]

I hope that will change one day.

Holland figured it out decades ago, that it’s worth it to create bike infrastructure in and around cities, even at the expense of automotive infrastructure.

The problem is that at the beginning, it will anger motorists and cost votes; it takes guts.

The studies in the UK and Europe show that return on investment for cycling is usually well over 2:1:

“It’s too expensive to provide for cycling”

Good cycling infrastructure does cost money, but it is incorrect to say it is a large amount in the scope of overall transport spending, or that it is a poor return on investment. Cycling infrastructure has been shown to pay back to society more than it costs – a 2014 UK government report cited...

cyclingfallacies.com

 

[pagheca]

Holland figured it out decades ago, that it’s worth it to create bike infrastructure in and around cities, even at the expense of automotive infrastructure.

The problem is that at the beginning, it will anger motorists and cost votes; it takes guts.

Yes, there is a nice and entertaining channel about it on youtube, made by a guy who moved from Toronto to the Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes for those interested. I actually started thinking about buying an ebike, rather than en electric car, from there.

The Dutch started the mobility revolution in the seventies. In the beginning, people were very hostile, but then they started to see the benefits...

 

[Smaug]

Yes, there is a nice and entertaining channel about it on youtube, made by a guy who moved from Toronto to the Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes for those interested.

Sub’d; thanks!

There’s also a current Canadian (Vancouver, I think?) with a pro-bike infrastructure channel.