For sure. Or added the crossing where you have to wait for lights. It’s a small road, it should just be a crosswalk with pedestrian priority and a low speed limit. Not a car priority traffic light crossing.
If there’s not very much car traffic and almost no trucks, and if that traffic obeys the rules and speed limits well enough, there is not always the need for separate bike lane. This way the bicycles, if there are many cyclists, become an indication to car drivers that what they are driving on is a local street, woonerf, school area, etc. While the design with separated bike lane would be a 1 person wide situation, while this way cyclists can cycle 2 next to eachother together in the street which is a lot more fun. I don’t know this particular street or city, if it works depends on local factors such as general driver culture, habits, local policing efforts, amount of cyclists, etc, but it’s not per definition the worse design.
What I dislike is that they did put in the bike lane for the silly short piece. In this case, it could’ve been better to just raise the entire intersection in a speedbump-plateau and no separate bike lane at all.
One solution would be to sacrifice the new gardens on that top road to make space for bike lanes. Of even better, the whole road becomes a bike-first road where cars are allowed in at 10km/h.
It’s very good, but it would have been even better if they didn’t do the “you’re on your own now” thing with the bike lane.
For sure. Or added the crossing where you have to wait for lights. It’s a small road, it should just be a crosswalk with pedestrian priority and a low speed limit. Not a car priority traffic light crossing.
seriously, all this and they couldn’t find space to make a proper raised bike path?
If there’s not very much car traffic and almost no trucks, and if that traffic obeys the rules and speed limits well enough, there is not always the need for separate bike lane. This way the bicycles, if there are many cyclists, become an indication to car drivers that what they are driving on is a local street, woonerf, school area, etc. While the design with separated bike lane would be a 1 person wide situation, while this way cyclists can cycle 2 next to eachother together in the street which is a lot more fun. I don’t know this particular street or city, if it works depends on local factors such as general driver culture, habits, local policing efforts, amount of cyclists, etc, but it’s not per definition the worse design.
What I dislike is that they did put in the bike lane for the silly short piece. In this case, it could’ve been better to just raise the entire intersection in a speedbump-plateau and no separate bike lane at all.
this to me still looks like a road with a decent amount of traffic, otherwise they wouldn’t need the signalled crossing and the give way line.
One solution would be to sacrifice the new gardens on that top road to make space for bike lanes. Of even better, the whole road becomes a bike-first road where cars are allowed in at 10km/h.