Originally Posted by
livedarklions
I know you've ridden in a far greater variety of places than I have, so I wanted to run this impression by you: The lack of anything resembling a rational street plan in the Boston area pretty much forces a person to vary their riding strategy from neighborhood to neighborhood to a degree I've never seen anywhere else in the US.
City by city, town by town, even neighborhood by neighborhood. It’s a macrocosm of microcosms.
But just don’t let the crowd here say that things aren’t different around the world. Just two extremes, I’ve ridden on sidewalks in Taipei, I did not die. And I’ve gasp “taken the lane” in Amsterdam, see the video below. I did not die.
(Helpful hint, even in Amsterdam the bike lanes don’t go everywhere.)
Streets of Amsterdam
As far as “cyclists fare best... blah blah blah” (yet another absolutest rubbish).
When traveling between Copenhagen and Malmo, cyclists fare best taking the train.
-mr. bill