Orange skyway cycle lane in Copenhagen

[macpeapod]

Courtesy of a friend via twitter - check out the new bright orange cycleway in Copenhagen:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3034251/this-bright-orange-skyway-is-copenhagens-newest-bike-lane

Al.

 

[billadie]

"Designed by an architect"
The cycle lanes around here are designed and supplied by a bloke with a paint brush and a can of white paint. And he only works part time. In summer.
How did the Danes get it so wrong?

 

[flecc]

How did the Danes get it so wrong?

There's a high rate of cycling in Denmark so they have to provide for them. In Britain the low rate of cycling means the authorities:

1) can conveniently avoid that provision.

2) can't justify the huge expenditure for that provision.

Pick the ending according to belief.
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[Blew it]

 

[Jonah]

Didn't I see something like this planned for Bristol?

 

[billadie]

There's a high rate of cycling in Denmark so they have to provide for them. In Britain the low rate of cycling means the authorities:

1) can conveniently avoid that provision.

2) can't justify the huge expenditure for that provision.

Pick the ending according to belief.
.

And the next thing you know, there is no-one cycling, so you sack the line painter. Job well done!

 

[amigafan2003]

If we had that over here we'd just get Strava nutters causing accidents on it.

One good thing - pedestrians aren't allowed to use it

Whilst it is a good solution to a specific problem, I wouldn't like to see a proliferation of them - i.e. elevated skyways above existing roads - all that does is re-inforce the idea that roads are for cars and that bikes should stick to cycle lanes.