I'm from the UK. I spend a bit too much time looking at street view. Looked at places in Poland and every new road or renewal of road appeared to have almost Dutch quality separate tracks and their own crossings of junctions and Dutch roundabouts. This totally makes sense, its a blank canvas so get it right from the start. However in the UK nothing appears to have changed, governments and councils talk about cycling, sometimes they do put in some good infrastructure, however new roads and renewals are still being built like they were designed in the 80's. All we get is shared use pavements, barely wider than normal pavements and shared crossings and these are used even when shared use should only be used as a last resort, i.e. if there is not room for separate tracks, which is not the case on new developments.
I’m glad to hear it. I rode from Gdansk to Kostryzn and the inter city routs are still “developing “. There were a few times out on two lanes roads with the big trucks where I was shot through with adrenaline racing to the end of the day. In spite of that it’s a great place to tour, since there were plenty of small quiet roads to enjoy.
Then again, look at Munster, or Freiburg. No Polish city is at that level just yet. Closest is Wrocław & Poznań, and then again they have almost 2x less bike usage at around 8% both. By far the biggest issue in both cities cycling infrastructure are the gaps in the network of cycling paths, especially in Poznań. It doesn't matter if we have better bike infrastructure if we have it only on 30% of all streets, or they appear and disappear throughout one street.
I just returned from Berlin, the infrastructure is a similar mess. They don't seem to have any guidelines around it. And in Berlin they are even removing bike lanes. To be fair, in Barcelona it is pretty messy too. They seem to be improving though and have some guidelines now.
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I'm from the UK. I spend a bit too much time looking at street view. Looked at places in Poland and every new road or renewal of road appeared to have almost Dutch quality separate tracks and their own crossings of junctions and Dutch roundabouts. This totally makes sense, its a blank canvas so get it right from the start. However in the UK nothing appears to have changed, governments and councils talk about cycling, sometimes they do put in some good infrastructure, however new roads and renewals are still being built like they were designed in the 80's. All we get is shared use pavements, barely wider than normal pavements and shared crossings and these are used even when shared use should only be used as a last resort, i.e. if there is not room for separate tracks, which is not the case on new developments.
I’m glad to hear it.
I rode from Gdansk to Kostryzn and the inter city routs are still “developing “. There were a few times out on two lanes roads with the big trucks where I was shot through with adrenaline racing to the end of the day.
In spite of that it’s a great place to tour, since there were plenty of small quiet roads to enjoy.
Every row of on-street parking is a missed opportunity of a good bike lane.
Then again, look at Munster, or Freiburg. No Polish city is at that level just yet. Closest is Wrocław & Poznań, and then again they have almost 2x less bike usage at around 8% both.
By far the biggest issue in both cities cycling infrastructure are the gaps in the network of cycling paths, especially in Poznań. It doesn't matter if we have better bike infrastructure if we have it only on 30% of all streets, or they appear and disappear throughout one street.
I just returned from Berlin, the infrastructure is a similar mess. They don't seem to have any guidelines around it. And in Berlin they are even removing bike lanes.
To be fair, in Barcelona it is pretty messy too. They seem to be improving though and have some guidelines now.