Can imagine the strategic planning meeting at Leeds council an hour before the end of financial year. Our KPIs are looking good across the board except Alan in sustainable transport tells me that our commitment to creating 1.5 miles of dedicated cycle paths this year has fallen 9 feet short. How can we address this?
@@jamesroalson5269 11th and Osage basically is the one I see regularly after getting off the light rail. To be honest, it's short and there's a more standard kind of trash bike lane after only like a block or two, but I still hate it because I see it as the city padding their total number of bike lanes/miles with crap that can never be used as an actual bike lane.
As a cyclist living in Hong Kong: Already riding probably 15-20 km/h (on weekdays, very late night to avoid holiday riders and commuting crowd), slow down and be 120% cautious and alert at every turn, downhill, uphill, with sufficient lighting, bell (sometimes shout politely to some careless pedestrians and night runners who run in non-reflective / light-colored outfit), avoiding broken bollards, gravel from construction site nearby. When you think you are safe.... (insert: bgm when encounter a Pokémon in bush) A fat kid on the pedestrian road suddenly sprinted out through the bush
In Australia, it's only a bike lane until a car feels like parking in it, then it's a car park. We also have a sub-species of not-quite-humanoid called the "glass-smashing bogan", aka idiots in Commodores who droop beer bottles into bike lanes to deliberately create tyre destroying shards of glass.
Good job guys, keep publicly shaming cities till they figure it out! How about another segment for best bike paths so the nimrods can see examples of the correct way to build a cycle lane.
Grande Chile! Seriously, we've got some amazing bike lanes and countryside/long mountain routes in Santiago, but some insanely crap urban bike lanes too. I've never seen the one Danilo sent you in person, but holy crap that's funny and terrible.
A while ago a new bike lane opened up somewhere in Chile, don't remember where exactly, but the police were there as part of the opening, along with the mayor and some local cyclists and some media. Where did the cops park their car? LITERALLY IN THE BIKE LANE! Of course!
So the orange diamond "Share the road" is actually a construction warning; the Bike Lane is closed due to construction and the sign is there to tell bikes to merge with traffic.
We have share the road signs around our city. They are permanent signs here, not construction signs and are there to remind people that bikes are allowed to ride in the street. But in reality it makes people think that bikes are only allowed on the streets with those signs. Some streets have share the road painted on the pavement too.
7:59 Yes, you have to use the bikelane in Germany, when you come across this blue sign, but only, if the path is in a useable condition and has no obsticles, so here theese constrains are obviously not fulfilled.
I know this is all meant to be in good humour, but I can't help feeling rage at the the utter contempt road planners have for cyclists. I see endless examples of this personally, including cycle lanes/routes that lead directly into a wall or river, ones that pointlessly span only a small section of road, or what is probably the most contemptuous one yet: a years old sign for a cycle lane that was never built, just a few feet away from another sign that says "no cycling".
You guys should do a "worst bike paths" video with Danny MacAskill, Ali Clarkson or Duncan Shaw. They would show you guys how to ride them... or some of them.
#3 by Madness - "Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house, in the middle of our street" #2 Looks like something Simon Pegg can come up from Big Train.
I know the one in Tokyo on the Tamagawa bike path. The photo is not quite fair as there is another sign (in Japanese of course) telling people not to use it, as there is an alternate path with plenty of headroom running parallel to the path shown here. That being said, some people still head up to it, and it is impossible to guess why they bothered to build it in the first place.
The Chile one makes sense, actually. When your country is approximately the width of a linguini noodle -- and I assume this path runs north-to-south -- a lot of infrastructure's got to share the exact same space.
Ah yes, Hong Kong makes the list. A lot of the bike path is actually really good and we have a bike path the size of a road connecting two districts, but most of the bike path are short segments interrupted by road with bollards at each end, leading to the situation at 3:30.
I'm so happy California allows bikes to use any lane even if there's a bike path, sometimes this just happens. (Plus we get to filter, a lifesaver in traffic)
That "Share the Road" sign is pretty common around the Mesa, AZ area. It's usually combined with a "Bike Lane Ends" sign. And a "Road Work Ahead" sign. It's supposed to let both cyclists and motorists that they have to share. Their effectiveness is debatable. I normally avoid the things like the plague. Th
Love your interpretation of the Japanese text, but in fact no mention of clearance is made whatsoever! (FWIW, the actual bike path diverts around this -- I have no idea why they even bothered paving under it.)
Share the road. Means bike lane unusable, the Bikes are now going to have to mix in with traffic. Munich looks like a recent flood. Hopefully, it will be fixed. Great video.
There are heaps here in melbourne on busy roads which double as parking for cars, meaning you need to swerve out into traffic if you use them, more dangerous than not having a bike lane.
In the US, many cities don't even have bike lanes. I'm at a university, and the main roads around campus don't have them, only a sidewalk. The main road has heavy traffic moving at 30-40mph. The bike lanes begins on another main road right before it runs into a highway, making it useless.
My contender for the worst bike lane is the roundabout next to the French gate at CERN in Geneva. The bike lane from St. Genis feeds into the two lane roundabout that has no markings on the ground and to get to CERN you have to cross the two lane roundabout exit that is the beginning of a highway and the two lane highway end feeding into the roundabout. It's just ridiculous and actually heavily used because hundreds of people working at CERN come to work by bike.
A few similar to that in Darlington. All hailing back to when it was a cycling demonstration town (!). Like you say, got the grubby claws of local councildom all over them. Clearly road and traffic planners have never seen a bicycle in their lives.
Finnish sample over the railwaystation area with a three story staircase at the other end. But it cuts a kilometre so some bicyclists still use it. maps.app.goo.gl/n2ZuCf1AP2VrQzM88
The share the road sign in san Francisco is probably because the bike lane is blocked by construction, so it's temporarily closed and cyclists should use the road instead until after the construction. That's usually how I see it used in California
I have been living 100 meters away from the Tama river for more than 10 years, and have gone up and down the whole length of the Tama cycling road dozens of times. I know every bit of it, on both sides of the river, and can assure you that the cycling road DOES NOT pass there. Many low bridges (especially for trains) are along the path, but the cycling road dips down at the foot of the embankment to go under them, there is no need to stay on top of the embankment (where the pic was taken). This is a completely misleading picture, and whoever sent it to you is being dishonest.
My favorite people are the lovely folks that use the bike lane, as a passing lane/right turn lane (I'm in Canada). Then... then have the consideration to honk and yell at you, for being "In their damn way", when you're waiting at the light, and they can't get by. Poor, poor fella. :(
Don't worry.Nothing's worse than in Singapore,where the 'bike paths' are more like pedestrian paths(you'll see more pedestrians there than on their own path),and some of the bike paths deserve to be called mtb trails(its like riding over mound after mound of dirt).
Future GCN show: each week whichever presenter gets most likes on their videos gets sent to the best bike path of the week, least likes goes to worst one...
Great video. Glad you still want more. I could half fill another video with examples from Ipswich and Colchester! I assume you will have had zero suggestions from Holland.
I'm from Kingston and have used that bike path dozens of times. The right lane just doesn't exist, you just bike in the left lane. It's on the outskirts so I've never seen a pedestrian on it.
The believe the above comment is correct (not sure which bridge this is. What is the km post? (For those who don't know, the Tama has posts indicating the current location in terms of km from the mouth of the river.)
@@Bungle2010 He said "We all want more dedicate bike lanes...." Smart people don't want dedicate bike lanes that fill with road debris and constrict vehicular traffic. They aren't safer or better at all.
@@Bungle2010 The are the best example in the UK, but wouldn't pass minimum standards in the Netherlands. & outside London there is virtually nothing. Only 1% of trips are made by bike in the UK as opposed to 29% in the Netherlands & 16% in Germany. In fact Brits cycle less than nearly any other European nation.. This is all down to a lack of infrastructure.
It goes to show you that bike paths don't necessarily mean safety. It often mean you better off mixing with traffic or sharing the sidewalk with pedestrians.
I kept expecting Denver to have one in the top three. Between Lane on the highway to the airport, 15th Street suicide cross & Left bike lane on Broadway
You should have included the Singapore bike paths, they are very bumpy, have poles in the middle of them, are Super curvy unnecessary and they also start and end abruptly. They are the reason why I ride on the road most of the time.
The worst bike lane of world is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Is a big bridge bordering the sea that falled down at least 3 times since the inauguration in 2016 (unfortunately 2 cyclist died). Today, the bike lane is closed by judicial decision, but still there, with a lot of cyclists and walkers crossing it every day. Search for “ciclovia Tim Maia”.
San Diego has a sign posted "Bicycles may use traffic lane". Posted limit is 45 mph but actual speeds are more like 55-60 mph since they don't write speed tickets. What are they thinking?
If you look at the "Share the road" picture - There is road-work just a couple meters down the road blocking the bike lane - Which is why the "Share the road" sign is there.....
Melbourne, Australia. We have a few of the stairs with side channel, however they are much steeper than the one in this vid (riser to tread ratio doesn't warrant stairs IMO) , you are supposed to walk the bike up or down not try to ride the channel. As an old guy I like them, I wont be running up stairs with a bike (30+kilo e-bike) over my shoulder, does make it easier than stairs alone.
I live in a town where "closing the gaps in bike path supply" means painting white bikes on the tarmac and then sharing the lane with cars. I mean, c'mon, that's not what "closing gaps" means.
Going to the opposite end of the scale, the bike paths around Valencia, including in the Turia river park, are absolutely outstanding. Brilliant way to get around the city.
Should take a look at singapore... we have bi-directional cycling paths that only have 80CM of width.... and most of those paths don't even reach 2 meters
