Bike paths that are completely separate from the road are the safest form of bike infrastructure and are great for people of all ages and abilities to use
It's really not hard to come up with the space for a protected bike path in the United States. I can't even figure out what they're going to do with most of these streets, they're so wide
Depends actually. In Germany we have many bike paths too and here planners opt for protected bike lanes and bike streets (streets which cars can just very limited enter and that sometimes have modal filters) recently. If done poorly, sidewalk level bike paths endanger pedestrians when cyclists pass each other on the sidewalk since the bike path is too small, many cracks appear because of city trees and people in cars don’t see you so good since you’re away from them. Furthermore these bike paths get forgotten to renew and during winter you can’t put salt on them. So, either you do it actually very good like the dutch, or a protected bikelane will do the job too.
It's really not hard to come up with the space for a protected bike path in the United States. I can't even figure out what they're going to do with most of these streets, they're so wide
Depends actually. In Germany we have many bike paths too and here planners opt for protected bike lanes and bike streets (streets which cars can just very limited enter and that sometimes have modal filters) recently. If done poorly, sidewalk level bike paths endanger pedestrians when cyclists pass each other on the sidewalk since the bike path is too small, many cracks appear because of city trees and people in cars don’t see you so good since you’re away from them. Furthermore these bike paths get forgotten to renew and during winter you can’t put salt on them. So, either you do it actually very good like the dutch, or a protected bikelane will do the job too.
Bike paths tend to be too long
Not even mentioning Denmark -_-
Netherlands has better infrastructure than Denmark :)
@@transportationland6395 The Netherlands has the best infrastructure in the world.
Portland also knows homelessness as well