@@jamesroalson5269 11th and Osage basically is the one I see regularly after getting off the light rail. To be honest, it's short and there's a more standard kind of trash bike lane after only like a block or two, but I still hate it because I see it as the city padding their total number of bike lanes/miles with crap that can never be used as an actual bike lane.
Can imagine the strategic planning meeting at Leeds council an hour before the end of financial year. Our KPIs are looking good across the board except Alan in sustainable transport tells me that our commitment to creating 1.5 miles of dedicated cycle paths this year has fallen 9 feet short. How can we address this?
My thought was perhaps it is a ward/division boundary, and the path was supposed to be made to continue on over the boundary into another councillor's patch, but they haven't gotten around to implementing it/are against cycle lanes, so it just ends. Same reason cycle lanes keep switching sides of the road or signage across London.
As a cyclist living in Hong Kong: Already riding probably 15-20 km/h (on weekdays, very late night to avoid holiday riders and commuting crowd), slow down and be 120% cautious and alert at every turn, downhill, uphill, with sufficient lighting, bell (sometimes shout politely to some careless pedestrians and night runners who run in non-reflective / light-colored outfit), avoiding broken bollards, gravel from construction site nearby. When you think you are safe.... (insert: bgm when encounter a Pokémon in bush) A fat kid on the pedestrian road suddenly sprinted out through the bush
In Australia, it's only a bike lane until a car feels like parking in it, then it's a car park. We also have a sub-species of not-quite-humanoid called the "glass-smashing bogan", aka idiots in Commodores who droop beer bottles into bike lanes to deliberately create tyre destroying shards of glass.
Good job guys, keep publicly shaming cities till they figure it out! How about another segment for best bike paths so the nimrods can see examples of the correct way to build a cycle lane.
Grande Chile! Seriously, we've got some amazing bike lanes and countryside/long mountain routes in Santiago, but some insanely crap urban bike lanes too. I've never seen the one Danilo sent you in person, but holy crap that's funny and terrible.
A while ago a new bike lane opened up somewhere in Chile, don't remember where exactly, but the police were there as part of the opening, along with the mayor and some local cyclists and some media. Where did the cops park their car? LITERALLY IN THE BIKE LANE! Of course!
So the orange diamond "Share the road" is actually a construction warning; the Bike Lane is closed due to construction and the sign is there to tell bikes to merge with traffic.
We have share the road signs around our city. They are permanent signs here, not construction signs and are there to remind people that bikes are allowed to ride in the street. But in reality it makes people think that bikes are only allowed on the streets with those signs. Some streets have share the road painted on the pavement too.
@@NickCombs "Bike lane closed" signs tell drivers that bikes are not allowed on the road. Bikes are street legal pretty much everywhere, but most car drivers don't know that and need to be reminded explicitly. "Share the road" signs are more common now, both in construction zones and permanent ones on designated bike boulevards (where the entire road itself is classified as a bike lane). It's a good move.
@@Legolas813 There's no way to win. The reason it's "share the road" and not "bikes allowed" is to avoid the very problem you're talking about. But many people in cars won't get the message no matter how explicit it is because they come from an assumption that bikes are not normal traffic.
It's been 4y since my comment and I think what I was getting at is the need for better signage. "Share the road" is actually kind of confrontational to drivers, and I could see it getting belligerent responses more than another message that somehow conveys "Sorry, but bikes have no choice but to merge into car traffic here" in a more succinct way of course. My area actually has a good example of this. I need to travel a short stretch of highway from my neighborhood to the city and they've closed the shoulder while constructing a multi-use path there. The sign they put up says "Bikes on roadway."
Thanks GCN for this public service announcement approach on the literal hurdles of everyday cycling! Keep up the good job, we need more of this and GCN has potential influence.
7:59 Yes, you have to use the bikelane in Germany, when you come across this blue sign, but only, if the path is in a useable condition and has no obsticles, so here theese constrains are obviously not fulfilled.
You guys should do a "worst bike paths" video with Danny MacAskill, Ali Clarkson or Duncan Shaw. They would show you guys how to ride them... or some of them.
#3 by Madness - "Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house, in the middle of our street" #2 Looks like something Simon Pegg can come up from Big Train.
I know this is all meant to be in good humour, but I can't help feeling rage at the the utter contempt road planners have for cyclists. I see endless examples of this personally, including cycle lanes/routes that lead directly into a wall or river, ones that pointlessly span only a small section of road, or what is probably the most contemptuous one yet: a years old sign for a cycle lane that was never built, just a few feet away from another sign that says "no cycling".
I know the one in Tokyo on the Tamagawa bike path. The photo is not quite fair as there is another sign (in Japanese of course) telling people not to use it, as there is an alternate path with plenty of headroom running parallel to the path shown here. That being said, some people still head up to it, and it is impossible to guess why they bothered to build it in the first place.
The Chile one makes sense, actually. When your country is approximately the width of a linguini noodle -- and I assume this path runs north-to-south -- a lot of infrastructure's got to share the exact same space.
Ah yes, Hong Kong makes the list. A lot of the bike path is actually really good and we have a bike path the size of a road connecting two districts, but most of the bike path are short segments interrupted by road with bollards at each end, leading to the situation at 3:30.
There are heaps here in melbourne on busy roads which double as parking for cars, meaning you need to swerve out into traffic if you use them, more dangerous than not having a bike lane.
That "Share the Road" sign is pretty common around the Mesa, AZ area. It's usually combined with a "Bike Lane Ends" sign. And a "Road Work Ahead" sign. It's supposed to let both cyclists and motorists that they have to share. Their effectiveness is debatable. I normally avoid the things like the plague. Th
I'm so happy California allows bikes to use any lane even if there's a bike path, sometimes this just happens. (Plus we get to filter, a lifesaver in traffic)
Love your interpretation of the Japanese text, but in fact no mention of clearance is made whatsoever! (FWIW, the actual bike path diverts around this -- I have no idea why they even bothered paving under it.)
Great video. Glad you still want more. I could half fill another video with examples from Ipswich and Colchester! I assume you will have had zero suggestions from Holland.
I kept expecting Denver to have one in the top three. Between Lane on the highway to the airport, 15th Street suicide cross & Left bike lane on Broadway
Is that Colchester path up the steps or across the top? If you cycle along the canal paths in East London there are some bridges that curve over the towpath and present some difficulty if you are more than about 5' tall
That's because the horses back then were not much over that height, and as it was built to allow them to pass, it was a perfectly sensible height. Don't blame the bridge for a later change of use.
Finnish sample over the railwaystation area with a three story staircase at the other end. But it cuts a kilometre so some bicyclists still use it. maps.app.goo.gl/n2ZuCf1AP2VrQzM88
A few similar to that in Darlington. All hailing back to when it was a cycling demonstration town (!). Like you say, got the grubby claws of local councildom all over them. Clearly road and traffic planners have never seen a bicycle in their lives.
Going to the opposite end of the scale, the bike paths around Valencia, including in the Turia river park, are absolutely outstanding. Brilliant way to get around the city.
7:05 Oh lord, the main street to my house is like that. Not a bike path, actual road. In that case, the road came first, then the house, but the local road planners in the area are not paid enough for the job I think, because the roads never follow the property vs municipal land lines! The asphalt was probably just poured through the designated path in the 80s, no sidewalks were ever built, nor has there ever been an attempt to paint any sorts of lines on the road. The particular house spilling on the road was built around 2008 if I remember correctly and I think they just stuck to their own property borders as the local government designated, which happened to include a part of the road. Although the walled section is as wide as a car, the asphalt is still wide enough to fit 2 at once and the road is not too busy, so no accidents happened so far... Yes that's a road I frequently have to use to bike around the neighbourhood or drive downtown...
The believe the above comment is correct (not sure which bridge this is. What is the km post? (For those who don't know, the Tama has posts indicating the current location in terms of km from the mouth of the river.)
My contender for the worst bike lane is the roundabout next to the French gate at CERN in Geneva. The bike lane from St. Genis feeds into the two lane roundabout that has no markings on the ground and to get to CERN you have to cross the two lane roundabout exit that is the beginning of a highway and the two lane highway end feeding into the roundabout. It's just ridiculous and actually heavily used because hundreds of people working at CERN come to work by bike.
Future GCN show: each week whichever presenter gets most likes on their videos gets sent to the best bike path of the week, least likes goes to worst one...
In Milton Keynes going down hill there are cycle lanes with billiards barely wider than you on a bike which is pretty terrifying when trying to also negotiate commuters at speed on yoyr road bike with bang average bike handling.
There’s a nice bike path along the Brisbane river leading up to QUT. Though as you reach the CBD the rails along the side disappear, meaning one lapse of judgement will quickly see you swimming in the river.
Share the road. Means bike lane unusable, the Bikes are now going to have to mix in with traffic. Munich looks like a recent flood. Hopefully, it will be fixed. Great video.
I live close to #7, it was a real shame Vaia tempest blow it away; now, instead of using that cycle way you have to use the main road which is super dangerous (and that's the reason they built the cycle way in the first place). I really hope they will fix it, but I doubt it :(
Should take a look at singapore... we have bi-directional cycling paths that only have 80CM of width.... and most of those paths don't even reach 2 meters
I instantly recognised that Leeds one from the first shot. It's always bemused me. The irony is that there is a a not awful (as strong as I'll go) section of segregated bike path on the grassland in the background, so obviously someone had a hint of how to do it well - but then this!
The share the road sign in san Francisco is probably because the bike lane is blocked by construction, so it's temporarily closed and cyclists should use the road instead until after the construction. That's usually how I see it used in California
We have Cycle Ways in Ireland. I think they were picked off a map because you'd need an off-road wagon to drive on some of them. They're also often single track roads shared with motor vehicles, short sight lines can make for "interesting" cycling.
In the US, many cities don't even have bike lanes. I'm at a university, and the main roads around campus don't have them, only a sidewalk. The main road has heavy traffic moving at 30-40mph. The bike lanes begins on another main road right before it runs into a highway, making it useless.
7:14 obviously, the bike path used to be the road's curb, and the house was built next to the road (or the road next to the house), and then they converted the road into a bike path, without considering the ramifications
7:55 German traffic code says that while yes, you are legally obliged to use this "bike path" that it also must be possible to use it. Since there's no bike path here, you are not legally obliged to use it. But you might then have to deal with some angry car drivers. Don't know which one is better.
The "share the road" sign is there because the bike lane is closed up ahead for construction. It's a message to cars that bikes will be in the driving lane soon, and blocks the lane to let bikes know they' ll have to enter the driving lane. You can even see signs of the bike lane closure in the image. It is a clumsy implementation of it, but that's par for the course. Better than how it used to be, where there would just be a closed bike lane suddenly with no affordances, or a "bike lane closed" sign accidentally implying that bikes are not allowed on the road.
The Venice Munich cycle path was damaged by the Vaia storm on October 29, 2018. This storm brought down several million trees in Veneto, Friuli and Trentino with gusts of wind up to 200 km / h.
2:45 that's a bike road access point, not the (left-right going) bike road itself. (the gutter is only there so that you don't have to lift your bike while climbing the stairs)
I have been living 100 meters away from the Tama river for more than 10 years, and have gone up and down the whole length of the Tama cycling road dozens of times. I know every bit of it, on both sides of the river, and can assure you that the cycling road DOES NOT pass there. Many low bridges (especially for trains) are along the path, but the cycling road dips down at the foot of the embankment to go under them, there is no need to stay on top of the embankment (where the pic was taken). This is a completely misleading picture, and whoever sent it to you is being dishonest.
7:03 That's a really old looking house, most likely the owners didn't want to agree to a deal to move and make way for road construction so they just built the road right up into the house, leaving not enough room for the bike lane.
6:36, most of those are only meant to make it easier to end your bike trip. (and half of them lead to the back walks, making it easier to reach your back yard on bike)
San Diego has a sign posted "Bicycles may use traffic lane". Posted limit is 45 mph but actual speeds are more like 55-60 mph since they don't write speed tickets. What are they thinking?
Don't worry.Nothing's worse than in Singapore,where the 'bike paths' are more like pedestrian paths(you'll see more pedestrians there than on their own path),and some of the bike paths deserve to be called mtb trails(its like riding over mound after mound of dirt).
In Denver, CO, USA there’s a lovely sign in my neighborhood that says “Right lane for bikes and parking only.”
Soooo it’s for parking. Just parking.
oh my lord that'd give me an anxiety attack
Definitely expected there to be one on the top three right?!?!
@@jamesroalson5269 11th and Osage basically is the one I see regularly after getting off the light rail. To be honest, it's short and there's a more standard kind of trash bike lane after only like a block or two, but I still hate it because I see it as the city padding their total number of bike lanes/miles with crap that can never be used as an actual bike lane.
Here in Australia all bike lanes are also for parking. Pretty useless.
Why should you park your bike there?
Can imagine the strategic planning meeting at Leeds council an hour before the end of financial year.
Our KPIs are looking good across the board except Alan in sustainable transport tells me that our commitment to creating 1.5 miles of dedicated cycle paths this year has fallen 9 feet short.
How can we address this?
My thought was perhaps it is a ward/division boundary, and the path was supposed to be made to continue on over the boundary into another councillor's patch, but they haven't gotten around to implementing it/are against cycle lanes, so it just ends.
Same reason cycle lanes keep switching sides of the road or signage across London.
I am from Eastern Europe and I could fill top 10 by just looking trough my window
We don't have bike lanes, we have car parks. (Macedonia)
Lol no bike lanes in Ukraine
I’m from the Netherlands and I don’t have to worry about that shit
@@christiaanvanstek1300 i couldn’t tell
@@christiaanvanstek1300 LUCKY!
Set up a Strava segment for that Leeds bike “path “.
Strava's minimum segment length is way longer than that.
If you can't do a strava then how about get all the local clubs to come and ride the route and have the mayor give out prizes to the finishers.
Or what about a GCN presenter clip-in challenge?
haha Maybe the CST will sponsor a time trial using laser timing gates.
Thought the same thing!
As a cyclist living in Hong Kong:
Already riding probably 15-20 km/h (on weekdays, very late night to avoid holiday riders and commuting crowd), slow down and be 120% cautious and alert at every turn, downhill, uphill, with sufficient lighting, bell (sometimes shout politely to some careless pedestrians and night runners who run in non-reflective / light-colored outfit), avoiding broken bollards, gravel from construction site nearby. When you think you are safe....
(insert: bgm when encounter a Pokémon in bush)
A fat kid on the pedestrian road suddenly sprinted out through the bush
This should be a regular thing on the channel and you probably should go and ride / name and shame the worst offenders.
I would take an angle grinder to the guard rail in that Lisbon one.
id love to watch them try and ride these paths
In Australia, it's only a bike lane until a car feels like parking in it, then it's a car park. We also have a sub-species of not-quite-humanoid called the "glass-smashing bogan", aka idiots in Commodores who droop beer bottles into bike lanes to deliberately create tyre destroying shards of glass.
My upload featured by GCN?! I can pass away in peace now.
This was so hilarious! You'll have to do a part 2, or even 3.
Good job guys, keep publicly shaming cities till they figure it out! How about another segment for best bike paths so the nimrods can see examples of the correct way to build a cycle lane.
@@bradbouffiou7617 it only makes sense that most people drive cars, with cities giving us lanes like this to ride.
Grande Chile!
Seriously, we've got some amazing bike lanes and countryside/long mountain routes in Santiago, but some insanely crap urban bike lanes too. I've never seen the one Danilo sent you in person, but holy crap that's funny and terrible.
what a huge save for Santiago, you've seen nothing!!
A while ago a new bike lane opened up somewhere in Chile, don't remember where exactly, but the police were there as part of the opening, along with the mayor and some local cyclists and some media. Where did the cops park their car? LITERALLY IN THE BIKE LANE! Of course!
Is this Episode 2 of Jeremy's "How to Build a CX Course" video?
Andrew McAlister 😂😂🤙🏼
So the orange diamond "Share the road" is actually a construction warning; the Bike Lane is closed due to construction and the sign is there to tell bikes to merge with traffic.
But there are "Bike lane closed" signs for that.
We have share the road signs around our city. They are permanent signs here, not construction signs and are there to remind people that bikes are allowed to ride in the street. But in reality it makes people think that bikes are only allowed on the streets with those signs. Some streets have share the road painted on the pavement too.
@@NickCombs "Bike lane closed" signs tell drivers that bikes are not allowed on the road. Bikes are street legal pretty much everywhere, but most car drivers don't know that and need to be reminded explicitly. "Share the road" signs are more common now, both in construction zones and permanent ones on designated bike boulevards (where the entire road itself is classified as a bike lane). It's a good move.
@@Legolas813 There's no way to win. The reason it's "share the road" and not "bikes allowed" is to avoid the very problem you're talking about. But many people in cars won't get the message no matter how explicit it is because they come from an assumption that bikes are not normal traffic.
It's been 4y since my comment and I think what I was getting at is the need for better signage. "Share the road" is actually kind of confrontational to drivers, and I could see it getting belligerent responses more than another message that somehow conveys "Sorry, but bikes have no choice but to merge into car traffic here" in a more succinct way of course.
My area actually has a good example of this. I need to travel a short stretch of highway from my neighborhood to the city and they've closed the shoulder while constructing a multi-use path there. The sign they put up says "Bikes on roadway."
Lately in Malta, a cycle Lane was done. The thing is that it leads you straight to a wall. 😃
Shows you only where we bikers stand in the politicians’ view.
Thanks GCN for this public service announcement approach on the literal hurdles of everyday cycling! Keep up the good job, we need more of this and GCN has potential influence.
7:59 Yes, you have to use the bikelane in Germany, when you come across this blue sign, but only, if the path is in a useable condition and has no obsticles, so here theese constrains are obviously not fulfilled.
“I think you’re crazy if you call yourself a bike lane.”
“Then just call me a cycle path!”
You guys should do a "worst bike paths" video with Danny MacAskill, Ali Clarkson or Duncan Shaw. They would show you guys how to ride them... or some of them.
Or maybe make it a weekly or bi-weekly segment
Philippines: "Oh you have bike lanes?"
Well we dont
Over here in south east asia we haven't even figured out sidewalks yet
the text on the bridge at 0:25 just says a bunch of facts about the bridge (year it was built, length, etc.)
#3 by Madness - "Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our
Our house, in the middle of our street"
#2 Looks like something Simon Pegg can come up from Big Train.
🤣🤣🤣
0:28 i know Japanese people arent tall but damn
I know a few midgets that would still have to get off their bike for that one
@@rueichengkuo2557 hahaha
Even hobbits have to duck there.
@@NexuJin not even duck but crawl under while dragging your bike on it side,
I know this is all meant to be in good humour, but I can't help feeling rage at the the utter contempt road planners have for cyclists. I see endless examples of this personally, including cycle lanes/routes that lead directly into a wall or river, ones that pointlessly span only a small section of road, or what is probably the most contemptuous one yet: a years old sign for a cycle lane that was never built, just a few feet away from another sign that says "no cycling".
I know the one in Tokyo on the Tamagawa bike path. The photo is not quite fair as there is another sign (in Japanese of course) telling people not to use it, as there is an alternate path with plenty of headroom running parallel to the path shown here.
That being said, some people still head up to it, and it is impossible to guess why they bothered to build it in the first place.
In NYC we don’t have bike lanes, they’re parking space.
Government: Bike lanes are pointless, we've made bike lanes and nobody uses them.
The Bike Lanes They Made:
The Chile one makes sense, actually. When your country is approximately the width of a linguini noodle -- and I assume this path runs north-to-south -- a lot of infrastructure's got to share the exact same space.
Ah yes, Hong Kong makes the list.
A lot of the bike path is actually really good and we have a bike path the size of a road connecting two districts, but most of the bike path are short segments interrupted by road with bollards at each end, leading to the situation at 3:30.
There are heaps here in melbourne on busy roads which double as parking for cars, meaning you need to swerve out into traffic if you use them, more dangerous than not having a bike lane.
They must be international bike lanes. We have the same thing in Erie Pennsylvania. 😭
The Dutch will have nightmares watching this 😂
That "Share the Road" sign is pretty common around the Mesa, AZ area. It's usually combined with a "Bike Lane Ends" sign. And a "Road Work Ahead" sign.
It's supposed to let both cyclists and motorists that they have to share. Their effectiveness is debatable. I normally avoid the things like the plague.
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Yes I also assumed it was telling you to merge due to roadworks.
As soon as I saw the title I thought "There's at least one from Portugal, I know it." Sure enough...
4:57 Caption: "Triathlon-Path"
first triathlon ever on a brompton!
"Share the Road" signs normally denote an upcoming construction or work zone, which explains the orange cones seen in the background.
The camera work today is really popping the presenters into view. Nice work by the director. A+ job
Thanks Pulkit!
I'm so happy California allows bikes to use any lane even if there's a bike path, sometimes this just happens. (Plus we get to filter, a lifesaver in traffic)
Love your interpretation of the Japanese text, but in fact no mention of clearance is made whatsoever! (FWIW, the actual bike path diverts around this -- I have no idea why they even bothered paving under it.)
Great video. Glad you still want more. I could half fill another video with examples from Ipswich and Colchester! I assume you will have had zero suggestions from Holland.
Bike runs into a house...
Si: Ah, there's another one. LOLOLOLOL
Imagine if bike races had to be held on bike paths. I always think that when seeing them on TV. What a hilarious shitshow that'd be.
I kept expecting Denver to have one in the top three. Between Lane on the highway to the airport, 15th Street suicide cross & Left bike lane on Broadway
The bike lane in HK is the entrance and exit point for the park in the background - used by cyclist , runners, walkers etc. Kind of a holding area
Is that Colchester path up the steps or across the top?
If you cycle along the canal paths in East London there are some bridges that curve over the towpath and present some difficulty if you are more than about 5' tall
That's because the horses back then were not much over that height, and as it was built to allow them to pass, it was a perfectly sensible height. Don't blame the bridge for a later change of use.
That stair bike lane is nothing, The Sydney Harbour Bridge Stair at the start/end Bike Lane is one of the worst
But if you catch the security guard by surprise you can ride straight down the ramp! Bit hard getting up it though...
Finnish sample over the railwaystation area with a three story staircase at the other end. But it cuts a kilometre so some bicyclists still use it.
maps.app.goo.gl/n2ZuCf1AP2VrQzM88
0:36 I don't think you'll need that many characters for 'duck' probably recumbents only, I'da thought!
We've got a great one in Rednal (South West Birmingham). There are parking spacers marked out across it!
I don't understand how people can plan or build bike paths like that... like do they have no professional pride?
Yeah its pretty sad as these are all council installed and therefore "planned"!?
We have a similar one to the one in Leeds in Cardiff. It's to denote to cyclists where they are able to use the shared use pavement.
Leeds one is Epic!!🤣🤣🤣 Proper council job. 👏👏👏🤔
A few similar to that in Darlington. All hailing back to when it was a cycling demonstration town (!).
Like you say, got the grubby claws of local councildom all over them. Clearly road and traffic planners have never seen a bicycle in their lives.
I recognize that thumbnail right away. Home “sweet” home
Great idea for video guys - please do more
Please do ‘best’ dedicated bike paths.... similar to the Tucson 100 miles plus...
The stairs have a "Walk your bike" sign at the top.
Was expecting to see some London ones here, but somewhat happy there's worst bike lanes out there than what we have
Gotta need a tough bike to cycle through all those poles, barriers and fences. Any recommendations?
Kid in Leeds: Mum, can I ride my new bicycle?
Kid's mum: Sure, as long as you stay on the bikepath.
Kid: 🙈
Going to the opposite end of the scale, the bike paths around Valencia, including in the Turia river park, are absolutely outstanding. Brilliant way to get around the city.
7:05 Oh lord, the main street to my house is like that. Not a bike path, actual road. In that case, the road came first, then the house, but the local road planners in the area are not paid enough for the job I think, because the roads never follow the property vs municipal land lines! The asphalt was probably just poured through the designated path in the 80s, no sidewalks were ever built, nor has there ever been an attempt to paint any sorts of lines on the road. The particular house spilling on the road was built around 2008 if I remember correctly and I think they just stuck to their own property borders as the local government designated, which happened to include a part of the road. Although the walled section is as wide as a car, the asphalt is still wide enough to fit 2 at once and the road is not too busy, so no accidents happened so far...
Yes that's a road I frequently have to use to bike around the neighbourhood or drive downtown...
Send these councils official awards!
Oh yay! I've been waiting for this 🙏🏻😄 Now, let me watch 😃
That one of Tama river is BS, there is an underpass to that bridge, it is paved but it is NOT a section of the cycle lane
The believe the above comment is correct (not sure which bridge this is. What is the km post? (For those who don't know, the Tama has posts indicating the current location in terms of km from the mouth of the river.)
My contender for the worst bike lane is the roundabout next to the French gate at CERN in Geneva. The bike lane from St. Genis feeds into the two lane roundabout that has no markings on the ground and to get to CERN you have to cross the two lane roundabout exit that is the beginning of a highway and the two lane highway end feeding into the roundabout.
It's just ridiculous and actually heavily used because hundreds of people working at CERN come to work by bike.
Future GCN show: each week whichever presenter gets most likes on their videos gets sent to the best bike path of the week, least likes goes to worst one...
In Milton Keynes going down hill there are cycle lanes with billiards barely wider than you on a bike which is pretty terrifying when trying to also negotiate commuters at speed on yoyr road bike with bang average bike handling.
There’s a nice bike path along the Brisbane river leading up to QUT. Though as you reach the CBD the rails along the side disappear, meaning one lapse of judgement will quickly see you swimming in the river.
Theres a great one at the intersection of The Kingsway and President Avenue in Caringbah, NSW. It existed up until 2018 on google street view.
Share the road. Means bike lane unusable, the Bikes are now going to have to mix in with traffic. Munich looks like a recent flood. Hopefully, it will be fixed. Great video.
As a HongKonger, Spot HongKong's worst cycling path on youtube......My brain:Thats not a GCN vid.....wait a minute, arh....damn it of course.
I live close to #7, it was a real shame Vaia tempest blow it away; now, instead of using that cycle way you have to use the main road which is super dangerous (and that's the reason they built the cycle way in the first place).
I really hope they will fix it, but I doubt it :(
Should take a look at singapore... we have bi-directional cycling paths that only have 80CM of width.... and most of those paths don't even reach 2 meters
I don’t have a car and don’t plan on getting one, as I’m riding bikes to work. I find this humorous.
I instantly recognised that Leeds one from the first shot. It's always bemused me. The irony is that there is a a not awful (as strong as I'll go) section of segregated bike path on the grassland in the background, so obviously someone had a hint of how to do it well - but then this!
The share the road sign in san Francisco is probably because the bike lane is blocked by construction, so it's temporarily closed and cyclists should use the road instead until after the construction. That's usually how I see it used in California
We have Cycle Ways in Ireland. I think they were picked off a map because you'd need an off-road wagon to drive on some of them. They're also often single track roads shared with motor vehicles, short sight lines can make for "interesting" cycling.
0:52 That bike path looks like all it needs is a good samaritain with an angle grinder.
Hilarious! I could pick some examples from our little town, but they are a bit different, but still not only bad but really dangerous.
In the US, many cities don't even have bike lanes. I'm at a university, and the main roads around campus don't have them, only a sidewalk. The main road has heavy traffic moving at 30-40mph. The bike lanes begins on another main road right before it runs into a highway, making it useless.
Am I the only one who goes crazy from the reversed audio channels? :P Great video, as always!
Sorry about that Maciek
Global Cycling Network apology accepted ;) Keep up the great work!
Check out the part of the Old Croton Aquaduct Trail through Tarrytown, NY.
7:14 obviously, the bike path used to be the road's curb, and the house was built next to the road (or the road next to the house), and then they converted the road into a bike path, without considering the ramifications
7:55 German traffic code says that while yes, you are legally obliged to use this "bike path" that it also must be possible to use it. Since there's no bike path here, you are not legally obliged to use it. But you might then have to deal with some angry car drivers. Don't know which one is better.
Glad to see the San Francisco made it on the list but there are far worse examples than that here
The "share the road" sign is there because the bike lane is closed up ahead for construction. It's a message to cars that bikes will be in the driving lane soon, and blocks the lane to let bikes know they' ll have to enter the driving lane. You can even see signs of the bike lane closure in the image. It is a clumsy implementation of it, but that's par for the course. Better than how it used to be, where there would just be a closed bike lane suddenly with no affordances, or a "bike lane closed" sign accidentally implying that bikes are not allowed on the road.
They recently extended a bike lane near Havant that was half a yard long.
3:11 looks like it used to be a biking island before they pushed the road(s) further apart for the park.
Hahaha that Hong Kong bike path 😂 the ones at Tai Mei Tuk are quite the adventure
The Venice Munich cycle path was damaged by the Vaia storm on October 29, 2018. This storm brought down several million trees in Veneto, Friuli and Trentino with gusts of wind up to 200 km / h.
2:45 that's a bike road access point, not the (left-right going) bike road itself. (the gutter is only there so that you don't have to lift your bike while climbing the stairs)
Epic bike lane in Hong Kong 😂😂😂
Well done guys, love the humour, how about drooling over the 10 Best Cycleways...
6:06 at least its longer then it is wide
I have been living 100 meters away from the Tama river for more than 10 years, and have gone up and down the whole length of the Tama cycling road dozens of times. I know every bit of it, on both sides of the river, and can assure you that the cycling road DOES NOT pass there. Many low bridges (especially for trains) are along the path, but the cycling road dips down at the foot of the embankment to go under them, there is no need to stay on top of the embankment (where the pic was taken). This is a completely misleading picture, and whoever sent it to you is being dishonest.
7:03 That's a really old looking house, most likely the owners didn't want to agree to a deal to move and make way for road construction so they just built the road right up into the house, leaving not enough room for the bike lane.
So when are we going to see a Si vs Hank breakdance comp? For science, clearly.
6:36, most of those are only meant to make it easier to end your bike trip. (and half of them lead to the back walks, making it easier to reach your back yard on bike)
San Diego has a sign posted "Bicycles may use traffic lane". Posted limit is 45 mph but actual speeds are more like 55-60 mph since they don't write speed tickets. What are they thinking?
0:51, Peter sagan:
Hold my electrolytes
Please, race the worst bike paths. Make it official. I want to see a peloton!
Don't worry.Nothing's worse than in Singapore,where the 'bike paths' are more like pedestrian paths(you'll see more pedestrians there than on their own path),and some of the bike paths deserve to be called mtb trails(its like riding over mound after mound of dirt).
I would have simply moved that "share the road sign" into the middle of the road.