Wednesday, January 4, 2017

A Bike Network With Just Trails Is like A Car Network With Just Freeways

If you've got a long way to go, or nowhere to go in particular, nothing beats an off-street path.
The Danes, masters of urban bike infrastructure, have a name for the nicest of their off-street paths: "cycle superhighways." It's apt. For better and for worse, a great bike path is a sort of tiny freeway. (Though it tends to smell much nicer.)
Maybe this helps explain why the United States, though it's lagged in building all-ages bike lanes, is so good at building nice bike paths. Minneapolis's Midtown Greenway, for example, is one of the wonders of the biking world:
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