Jan Heine had a less-than-ecstatic review or analysis of European cycling infrastructure compared to US needs; this in a not too old BQ. IIRC, you could sum up the article by saying "It's useful but slow, not fun and not really applicable to American distances." Now, NYC may be more European in its cycling needs than much else of the US.
Here in ABQ, NM, the cycling infrastructure grows apace under our Republican mayor; a major new extension of the Alameda Boulevard bike path (there is also a nice bike lane for much of the road) and there is even talk of a cycling Ring Road -- the main complaints per the front page newspaper article were actually from local a cycling group or groups because it/they were not involved, or sufficiently involved, in the planning. And I remember vaguely other in-process plans to extend one bike path to another bike path with a new $XM bridge of I-25 -- so many of these improvements, one can't really be expected to keep up with it all, you know. Oh, and on West Central (old route 66) near Old Town they removed one car lane in each direction (now there are just one for each) to make bike lanes. AND they have turned a couple of E-W cross-town streets -- Copper, some years ago, and more recently Lead, a larger feeder -- into bike avenues with traffic slowing and wide, safe lanes for cyclists. The one difficulty I remember was going east on Copper where it ran into the fairground: you were largely left hanging unless, as I did, you went through the grounds itself -- difficult in full Fair season. IIRC, there are some four hundred miles of bike paths and lanes. Altogether I would rate ABQ's cycling infrastructure quite highly: it is indeed easy to get around by bike. OTOH, the distances are large, the terrain is rolling and climbs some 1,500 feet from valley floor where I live to Tramway some 7 miles east as the crow flies, and it is quite windy. If Amsterdam were laid out like ABQ, I expect far fewer Hollandais/se would commute by bike -- tho' they'd probably have a more extensive public transit system: here, apart from the express lines, it is largely used by the poor. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Lyle Bogart <lylebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > From today's NY Times: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/world/europe/in-denmark-pedaling-to-work-on-a-superhighway.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all > > Cheers! > > lyle > > -- > lyle f bogart dpt > > 156 bradford rd > wiscasset, me 04578 > 207.882.6494 > 206.794.6937 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- "Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you." Flannery O'Connor ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
