Normally, I’d wait to post this as an item in a Hornby Cycle Track Update. But this is too good to wait:
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It’s the newest cycle track – a fully separated route – in New York City, through Queens Plaza on one of the city’s busiest arterials. And it looks very permanent, doesn’t it?
I was asked the other day by a politico as to whether something like the Hornby cycle track was really just overkill – an outlier when it came to cycling infrastructure, too expensive and unnecessary when a painted lane would do.
“It’s the way the world is going,” I responded. “You’re going to see cycle tracks everywhere it makes sense, and in every major city, even in North America. Vancouver just happened to be an early adopter.”
But not for long.
