City Cycling,Events
Copenhagen has, on certain stretches of bike lanes featuring heavy traffic (15,000 + bikes per day), started coordinating the traffic lights to give cyclists a ‘green wave’ all the way along the route.
This means that if you ride 20 km per hour you’ll hit green lights the whole way.
Meanwhile, in this third world country:
as spotted in Harlow, Essex by the Warrington CC
Article posted Friday, October 12th, 2007
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What kind of an idiotic bureaucratic administration insisted on this? Surely, no sane person would design this … idiocy by commitee?!
Living in a crazy country…
Velorution: Green and blue waves provides a dramatic contrast between living in a sane country (in this case Denmark) and living in the UK….
I’ve made similar comments regarding bollards along bike paths that force cyclists to dismount before steep hills, at intersections and trail entrances. Imagine the outrage if motorists were forced to push their cars through busy parking lots and across intersections!
Sign making business must be good.
And here in Canada, those signs would be in about six languages … besides our official two (that’s English and French for those who aren’t sure).
Seriously! We have instructional signs for how to cross the road … in several languages!!! No shit. It involves pressing a button; you’d think people could figure it out for themselves.
English and Spanish are common on signs in the USA, though traffic regulatory signs remain solely English. Where I’m at the San Francisco “South Bay” area, it’s common to see signs in English, Spanish, some version of Chinese and Vietnamese. In some areas you can add Korean to the mix.
Off topic but I’ve just seen the Ford advertisment, “wouldn’t it be a shame if birds didn’t use their wings?” and then it cuts to a car! What about wouldn’t it be a shame if people didn’t use their legs, showing them stuck in traffic jams, driving 100 yards to yoga classes (no, really) etc. and cut to a bicycle. Someone could do this and jam the ford advertisment. I wish they would, the world is crazy.