For those not aware the blue bike sign means using the bike path is mandatory. You are not allowed on the roadway here.
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Not quite this extreme, but they love to build this type of nonsense here in Czechia.
They want to build a separated bike path but they don’t want to do the hard work. They wouldn’t make existing roads narrower, or block cars from some roads, or even deal with complicated property ownership situations. So they build the easy bit – that follows beside the road as it crosses a field. It begins just as the previous village/town ends and ends as soon as it reaches the next town. And using them is mandatory for cyclists, if one is available! So in theory you have to swerve to the bike path (possibly crossing the road, because they only ever build one side), then go three hundred meters on the path, and then swerve back, rejoining traffic as you enter the next town. And if you don’t, you get honked at. Infuriating. The suburban zone around Prague is littered with this nonsense.
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For those not aware the blue bike sign means using the bike path is mandatory. You are not allowed on the roadway here.
Not quite this extreme, but they love to build this type of nonsense here in Czechia.
They want to build a separated bike path but they don’t want to do the hard work. They wouldn’t make existing roads narrower, or block cars from some roads, or even deal with complicated property ownership situations. So they build the easy bit – that follows beside the road as it crosses a field. It begins just as the previous village/town ends and ends as soon as it reaches the next town. And using them is mandatory for cyclists, if one is available! So in theory you have to swerve to the bike path (possibly crossing the road, because they only ever build one side), then go three hundred meters on the path, and then swerve back, rejoining traffic as you enter the next town. And if you don’t, you get honked at. Infuriating. The suburban zone around Prague is littered with this nonsense.