What does it look like when 35 percent of all vehicles in rush hour are bicycles? Rather like this street in Cambridge – the city that’s No. 1 on the Top 10 cycling communities in England. Not much separation here.
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It’s a bit of a shame that it’s sped up. It would be good to see the speed of the cars, to get a more intuitive feel for what car speeds are comfortable for that many cyclists.
due to narrow roads car speed seems low, in the 30 km/h range, unlike Vancouver where 60 km/h seems to be the norm.
Note that Cambridge is flat and much smaller than Vancouver. Biking in Vancouver will always be a minority unless e-bikes take off and car use is far far more expensive.
I went to Israel lately, and noted a lot of e-bikes in Tel Aviv, for example. How about a few articles on e-bikes ?
At first, this looks like a very unpleasant street to drive on. But on second thought, if just half of those cyclists were cars, this street would be so choked with cars it would be at a complete stand-still.
Are we allowed to critique this? It’s great that the mode share is so high and the shared space seems to be working. But can’t we imagine better designs?
I’d have that crossing in the middle be wide and raised to sidewalk height and zebra-painted, so that pedestrians cross whenever they like. I’d have the sidewalk widened so that the car lanes are even narrower in each direction, and paint or otherwise demarcate space on the edge of that sidewalk for bikes.
OR, even better, no curbs on the street anywhere but a surface (e.g. bricks) that clearly says pedestrian first please slow. Maybe gutters instead of curbs.
If you turn the camera 180degree, it will face king’s parade which pretty much uses your suggested “best predicament” as most of the Cambridge downtown.
However, the story bottom line stay valid: segregated bike paths are not part of the equation toward high cycling modal shift in Cambridge (suggesting that claims done on relationship between segregated bike infrastructure and bike practice could be wrong)…
Anecdotally, the pictured street, Trumpington, will see the Tour de France on July 7th…