Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
by sgift on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:56AM
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> and they're so wide that they take up the whole lane, preventing you from overtaking them.
This is a problem with lanes that are too small. An effect of giving most space to cars and sharing the left-overs between bikes and people walking.
Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
by sqren on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:24AM
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As another commenter said: require city council to build wider bike lanes. Another example from Copenhagen:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Dronning...
You can easily ride 3 bikes next to each other (and also four if you want). A single slow transporter won't block the traffic on wide lanes like this.
They usually go 15km/h or even slower (presumably due to the extra weight and/or overprotective new parents), and they're so wide that they take up the whole lane, preventing you from overtaking them. And since we usually have grade-separated bike lanes here (supposedly the holy grail, according to HN!) you can't even spill into the car lane temporarily.