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Belgium also has excellent biking infrastructure! If you look at Bruges, there's literally a cycling junction underneath a busy turnaround or cycling bridges g
by NicoJuicy 5y ago
Belgium also has excellent biking infrastructure!
If you look at Bruges, there's literally a cycling junction underneath a busy turnaround or cycling bridges going over busy highway roads ( those are there when your enter/exit the city)
Throughout the city, most roads are one-way, while bycicles can go two-ways. So bicycling is literally the most efficient way to cross the city.
Eg. To my work, it's a 5 minute trip with the bicycle because there is a bicycle route to it. With the car, the road takes 10 minutes ( normally 20 because of traffic). So it's x 4 as efficient for me
Reproducible: https://www.google.be/maps/dir/Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+Brugge/Vaartdijkstraat,+8200+Brugge https://www.google.be/maps/dir/Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+...
- CalRobert 5y agoOld car-free zones are tempting! Rothenburg ob der Tauber was also one we considered, or Venice.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoIsn't Venice basically like Disney Land because of tourism pushing out locals?
- CalRobert 5y agoyeah, most of the old car-free centres (Rothenburg odt too) are like this.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoFun fact: Bruges, where i live, is called "Venice of the north". There's also a really good film: "in Bruges" - https://youtu.be/96harmMOyiY https://youtu.be/96harmMOyiY Or a free running movie - "what tourists don't see" - https://youtu.be/2VToZ-vS2Vc https://youtu.be/2VToZ-vS2Vc
- CalRobert 5y agoI adore Bruges, and Ghent for that matter, and have been a few times. The first time I went for whatever reason it felt virtually empty, weirder still since there was some kind of marathon that day. I ended up going to a centuries-old bar and having spaghetti (and beer of course) of all things.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoProbably one of the few marathons where finalists receive a free beer ( Brugse Zot ) afterwards. And probably the only city in the world with a beer pipeline: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/halve-maan-brewery-beer-pipeline https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/halve-maan-brewery-beer-... !
- CalRobert 5y agoA place with its priorities straight :-)