All is not well on Dutch bike paths

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04-03-19, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by mr_bill

See the woman riding toward the camera? In a couple of more blocks she'd be here (BikeSnobNYC in Outside).

You got it turned around - Farimagsgade is in the direction of the camera - 2 roads down from the end of the bridge... I live a couple of minutes from that very intersection

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FWIW, I liked the width of Copenhagen's lanes, although some (not the above pictured) felt narrow on a christiania bike.

Yeah... especially at peak hours... but a lot of bike paths are being widened these days - as there's simply a lot more bikes happening than cars in much of the city.

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And what's with the light poles in the bikelanes?

Light poles? :S ...I imagine you might have experienced some older lanes with missing/insufficient bordering for poles.

And yeah... we're going a bit foodie-crazy in recent years

04-03-19, 10:58 AM

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Light poles? :S ...I imagine you might have experienced some older lanes with missing/insufficient bordering for poles.

Flixbus hell. (Where either the lane is too narrow with poles *OR* the lane is wide enough but filled with passengers and luggage, or worse, ABOUT to be filled with....)

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