Cycling Highway
Germany has opened the first three-mile stretch of a bicycle highway that will eventually span over 62 miles, connecting 10 western cities including Duisburg, Bochum, and Hamm, as well as four universities.
And this highway is an entirely separate roadway that will remain completely car-free.
Like a traditional highway, this bicycle highway has passing lanes, overpasses and underpasses for crossroads, and even streetlights. However, cyclists won't have to worry about trucks zooming by or bus lanes. It's just a clear path for miles and miles.
In a study completed by regional development group RVR, it's projected to take 50,000 cars off the road each day.
Source: SunnySkyz via Nature Knows
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8 年That's forward thinking. Canada as big and beautiful as it is, seriously lags in this initiative. We see some project beginning but so far behind. Imagine what this will do for eco-tourism. Can you imagine having roads like this from one end of the country to the other and offering bike tours. Can only be good for the tourism industry in any country.
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8 年Don't go getting any ideas around my neck of the woods.... Unless of course you want a race track on the airfield!!!! :)
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8 年We need to put some railway lines back on them (Dr Beeching closed lines) but it seems the industry struggles to achieve this (Portishead to Bristol a case in point) in less time than it took to build the American Pacific Railroad
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8 年And what a shame when Dr Beeching closed some many railway lines in the 1960's we didn't keep those lines in public ownership as we would now have an amazing network of cycle highways across the UK.