I live on a canal, it's a 5 minute walk from the busy city centre, but it's a very quiet area. Probably because the quay has a cobblestone road, and I mean real Paris-Roubaix style cobblestones. This slows down cars, wrecks bikes and loosens cyclist's fillings. So it's mainly destination traffic, otherwise it would be a busy route because it looks really nice with it's early 1900's architecture, lots of trees and houseboats. So I see hardly any cyclists near my house while a couple of hundred meters further they are swarming all over the place.