Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/6/10 Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>: >> In my eyes, that road would be simply tagged with highway=cycleway. > > there are some main differences though: usually they are normal > streets changed in designation. That is cars are allowed but don't > have the priority and must drive very slowly, they have > pavements/sidewalks, they are wide like streets, the give priority to > bicycles on crossings, etc. all of which is not the case for > cycleways.
Sidewalks are optional, some bicycle boulevards are actually pretty bad for pedestrians in places where houses don't have driveways, in which case sidewalks were eliminated to move on-street parking farther from the center to avoid car-door conflicts with passing bicycle traffic (these are pretty rare, most bicycle boulevards prohibit parking entirely). And at least in the US and Canada, the speed limits are the same for cyclists and cars alike (typically 25mph or metric approximation, though there's been talks of bumping it up to 30 on bicycle boulevards to accommodate faster commuters). Cycleways typically have priority over residential streets, more major cycleways typically have some kind of signalling system over more major streets, with the most major cycleways being limited-access, grade-separated operations similar to motorized expressways. Only the most minor, go-nowhere park greenways don't have priority at intersections (rationale being the motorists can wait being merely privileged users and requiring next to no effort to get moving again, cyclists have a right to the streets (unlike licensed motorists) and would have to expend real effort to get moving again).
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