Funny, if sad, set of photos from the BBC Website showing some poor examples of bicycle lanes. Anyone got some other not-so-good examples?
Funny, if sad, set of photos from the BBC Website showing some poor examples of bicycle lanes. Anyone got some other not-so-good examples?
There's a striped bike lane in Boston (Dorchester) that runs for about 15 feet along Morrissey Boulevard, then ends. There is also one on Perkins Street in Jamaica Plain that is always blocked by parked cars. Those are really the only two in the whole entire City of Boston.Originally posted by Tranplanner
Kunstler had one as an Eyesore of the Month. basically, it was a striped bicycle lane, half of the width was filled with a storm drain grate/bicycle tire-catcher-and- rider-disembarker contraption
At least they have them!
April 2004
Link to photo:http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200404.html
For more interesting photos check out -
http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/ Cycle Facility of the Month
AIB caption in 1st photo in BBC story.
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Not a bike lane, but I had a guy submit a site plan that had a utility pole in the middle of the required sidewalk.
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Sigh... utility poles in the middle of the sidewalk are common here, at least on roads built buy the state DOT (you know, the ones who call sidewalks "automobile recovery zones"). And the photo in the linked article of the dead end sidewalk is very typical of suburban Atlanta. Office parks frequently have a sidewalk at the edge of the development as window dressing. It usually doesn't connect to anything on either side but they get to claim they're pedestrian friendly for putting down a slab of concrete.
The DOT also made a big fuss about the fact that they put in a bike lane along 2/3 of the road they built leading to the parking deck of the Georgia Aquarium. Unfortunately, the aquarium uses it as a place to park service vehicles (even though they have a 1600 spot parking deck and multiple service bays).
I expect one of these days to find a bike lane equiped with little guys from the jungle waiting in the bushes to shoot poison darts at anyone who dares to actually try to ride a bike in a bike lane.
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You know, I agree with you on the premise. But, as a lifelong ped: anything is better than nothing.
The worst bikelanes I've ever seen were in Nottingham, England. They were basically the right side of the pavement closest to the street. If there was a tree, utitly pole, or any other obstacle you had to either ride in the street or slow way down. I'm not sure what the point of them was other than to have them for the sake of having them.
There is a really bad bike lane in laredo that turns into a turning lane for cars and than back to a bike lane.
In the 60's,in France, there was an all car policy. Cycles where count for 0,26 car unit, the more bicyle there was, the more car where count, and cycle lanes vanishe for making place for car.
Dans les années 60 en France, les pouvoirs publics favorisaient l'automobile. Dans les comptages, un vélo comptait pour 0,26 voitures, donc plus il y avait de vélos, en particulier sur les pistes cyclables, plus on comptait de voitures. Des pistes cyclables disparurent pour améliorer la circulation de ces voitures fictives.
yup, there are many bike paths in montreal with screwed up design. mainly the one along gouin blvd. in the north of the city (above). gouin is one of the oldest streets in the city, with many charming village areas and parks, as well as hundreds of utility poles on sidewalks/bike paths.
the rachel st bike path and christophe colomb path through the plateau are well built, but are now faced with very heavy cycle traffic (time for passing lanes?)
No photos of my own, but I immediately thought of curbside bike lanes with frequent sewer grates that have bars parallel with the path of travel.
D'oh!
I come from a metro place, and just recently bike lanes are being place along some streets. Its pretty sad, I must say. Not that many use this option of transportation. The only ones are some children. Its a world "driven" by gas-guzzlers.
If we were going to put bike lanes in our town. I know they would end up just like that! Ha ha !!
^-- I think rabelaisien's last bit was lost in translation. He's saying that on routes with high levels of bicycle traffic, the data actually ended up showing a high level of car traffic because bikes were being counted as fractional cars. The artifically high traffic count number was then used as justification for removal of bike lanes for congestion mitigation.
While that seems like a bit of bureaucratic idiocy I can't help but think that that was the intended result of the policy of counting bikes as fractional cars. In that, the people who decided to do that wanted to discourage biking and also come up with ways to make the data support their desire for more automobile facilities.
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While watching the Tour de France, I saw an interesting roadway facility. It looked as though the shoulder of an autoroute had been turned into a pedestrian and/or bicycle lane by simply installing at short metal guardrail between the right lane and the shoulder. Is anyone more familiar with this? I looked all over the internet for photos to no avail.
That's true. It's also a problem that developers use the fact that the sidewalk would not connect to anything as a reason not to build it. Of course, that means that the next developer will also use the same argument and no sidewalks will ever get built.
On the other hand, if a 100 foot strip of concrete is laid that attaches to nothing, the next developer will be more likely to include sidewalks in their plan or at least they will have less of an argument when they are required to include the sidewalk.
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