Copenhagen bicycle lanes
Melbourne bicycle blog, Treadly and Me, has an interesting post about the first Copenhagen bike lanes as well as a planned Copenhagen lane for Swanston St. Copenhagen lanes are bicycle lanes that separate cyclists and car traffic by putting a parking lane between them. So you would have the pavement where pedestrians walk, a bicycle lane, a lane for parked cars, and the vehicular traffic lane.
A couple of months ago, Melbourne’s first Copenhagen lane opened up in Cecil St., South Melbourne. The lane provides a safe route from the CBD to St. Kilda. The proposed project on Swanston Street would create a “safe” bike lane from Melbourne University to RMIT University at the cost of $500,000.
Treadly and Me: Trivia on Melbourne’s ‘Copenhagen’ Bike Lanes
Bicycle Victoria: South: St Kilda Baths to Melbourne’s CBD
Euro-style bike lanes plan for city
Picture via The Age
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This layout sounds great. Makes a lot more sense than some of the current bike lanes that become parking lanes during parts of the day, less likelyhood of catching a door if they’re only passenger doors, don’t have to worry about fast traffic entering your lane.
Copenhagen has several different treatments for bicycles. I discuss a few of them in an interview on my tv series on Google Video.
Contents of Episode 94 (2004):
–We visit a roundabout in Malmo, Sweden.
–We look at bicycles in Copenhagen, Denmark.
–We talk about transportation with a planner from Spain.
DISH Network Channel 9411 — The Universityhouse Channel
Tuesday — 9:30 pm Eastern, 6:30 Pacific
Episode 94 is also available on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2601523814849816357
Note: Public access cable channels are showing different episodes than DISH Network.
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