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To be fair, shitty bike lanes mostly appear in the inner city of Stockholm where bikelanes have been retrofitted onto existing roads using only roadmarkings. Y
by henrikschroder 10y ago
To be fair, shitty bike lanes mostly appear in the inner city of Stockholm where bikelanes have been retrofitted onto existing roads using only roadmarkings.
Yes, the Dutch way of building bike lanes are superior, but there's also a lot more bikers in the Netherlands, so it's easier to justify spending money on rebuilding roads instead of retrofitting there.
- unicornporn 10y ago> there's also a lot more bikers in the Netherlands, so it's easier to justify spending money on rebuilding roads instead of retrofitting there. And a reason for that could be that the infrastructure for riding bikes is so excellent?
- Coincoin 10y agoChicken or egg. I'm pretty sure they went iteratively until the demand matched the offer.
- Steltek 10y agoIt was an aggressive campaign for road safety stretching back to the 70's. The demand, in some form, was always there but it took a while for the road designs and technology to catch up.
- henrikschroder 10y agoIt's more likely that it's flat enough. Denmark is the same, it's really flat (highest mountain: 150m), which makes biking to work or the store less work, so you don't arrive in a sweaty mess. It's easy to bike, so more people do it, so there's more demand and infrastructure for it. Denmark also has an incredibly high spot-tax on cars, which makes biking even more attractive. I have a bunch of friends in Stockholm though who bought electric-assisted cargo bikes, which make it easy enough to take the kids to school or get to work or go grocery shopping, so that might make biking more attractive overall.