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Here is an outside view, fwiw, the official recommendations for bike lanes in Germany. In German, but lots of pictures! http://www.kompetenzzentrum-radverkehr.

• cerebellum42 10y ago
  After reading some of that, it contains some recommendations that lead to annoying and sometimes dangerous situations for cyclists that I recognize from my everyday cycling experiences in Germany. Just one example: They seem to encourage usage of pedestrian paths with "bikes allowed" signs on medium traffic streets with ~50km/h speed limit, think main road of a small-ish town. These have become waaay too popular, especially in small towns and some areas of bigger cities too. They make the cyclist choose between these two options: * share the pavement with pedestrians, but with barely any separation from the pedestrians; so you're either really really slow or you endanger pedestrians * use the road and share it with drivers who think it belongs solely to them and endanger cyclists So either way, it's a bad experience and potentially dangerous.