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The Paris cycling infrastructure is freaking non-efficient. And dangerous. Pedestrian and cycling zone are way too mixed, accidents between the two are very eas
by smonff 11y ago
The Paris cycling infrastructure is freaking non-efficient. And dangerous. Pedestrian and cycling zone are way too mixed, accidents between the two are very easy. Now, pedestrians hate cyclists and cyclists hate pedestrians. You cannot cycle freely becahse the cycles paths are a kind of bigger pedestrian path.The only place where you could use the bike in an efficient way are bus paths (also including taxis). It's interesting but not really secure as busses are very disrespectful with bicycles.
The political action is a fail in the case of Paris, because they did it only to say let's see, we did something for you, but they didn't reply understood the things that are explained in this video. They don't want to take the risk of loosing pro-cars electors and it is a pity.
- awjr 11y agoYup, happens in the UK. It is cheaper and less politically divisive to build a shared path rather than take on-road parking away to create segregated cycle infrastructure. One of the things I am trying to push into our local council is for them to use the cycling and walking audit tools that were developed as part of the Welsh Active Travel guidance http://gov.wales/consultations/transport/active-travel-design-guidance/?lang=en http://gov.wales/consultations/transport/active-travel-desig... They are available here should you want to use them ;) http://cyclebath.org.uk/resources/ http://cyclebath.org.uk/resources/ We've had a few schemes where 3-4 multiple designs were submitted and the final chosen design was poor for cycling and walking. Having a cycling and walking audit scores against each design would have given a stronger case for other designs. http://cyclebath.org.uk/2015/05/23/london-road-an-example-of-bad-banes-management/ http://cyclebath.org.uk/2015/05/23/london-road-an-example-of...