Dove devono cavalcare i ciclisti qui? Sono olandese, ma a volte visito la città tedesca di Gronau (Köningstrasse nella foto qui). Quindi non ho molta familiarità con il design stradale tedesco.
Intuitivamente questo design sembra realizzato per i ciclisti per andare sul percorso rosso (scusate, è vagamente rosso in questa foto). Nel mio paese, anche i percorsi ciclabili sono rossi. Sembra anche l’opzione più sicura. Allora perché hanno dipinto una bicicletta sulla corsia dell’auto?
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di gabrielo0
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For me as a Dutch person it even suggests that cars wouldn’t be allowed there. It feels so weird to drive there.
It seems those bike markings on the road are pretty fresh, on Google Maps you can see the workers painting them on. What you don’t see on google maps is a sign inditcating it’s a “Fahrradstrasse” which is a shared bike-car road with priority for bikes. Either they plan to change it to that or some other reason. My guess is, the old bike path on the walkway (red bricks) has been moved to the street to make more room for pedestrians and also force the cars to drive slowly and carefully. I guess it’s not always been a 30kph road either. (Or all the dutchies with their bikes where to much for the regular bikepath to handle /s)
Commoners ride red. König takes the car line.
It is weird af. I would suspect, given that the marking on the street seems to be fresher, that they redid part of the street and for some reason put the biking lane from the red path, onto the street.
I have no idea why though, maybe they want to rebuild the entire bike path and the marking on the street is only the first step, before rebuilding the other part. Maybe the official bike path has some damage somewhere, and therefore the one on the street is just a replacement. Or the workers doing that just had no idea what they are doing either.
Personaly i would use the red bike path, as you already said, it seems to be safer.
edit: another possible reason: iirc the bike path width got adjusted some time ago. maybe, the red bike path is to small now, so they had to draw the new one on the street, to adhere to the new law, even if it is a little non-sensical
The markings on the road have no legal significance. Sometimes, “sharrows” are used to remind everyone that cars and bicycles share the street. Using a separate bike path next to the road is not mandatory unless indicated by the round blue bicycle sign.
So here, bicyclists have a choice where they want to ride. Some might prefer the separate path (feels safer because there are no cars behind you), others might prefer the shared road (statistically safer because you’re more visible to cars at intersections, often better road surface).
A lot of places are switching from bicycle paths on the sidewalk to allow cycling on the road. That’s a pretty big shift because the doctrine has always been “cyclist should never ever use the road” before
This is an example of that. Now they paint bicycle symbols onto the road to signal that cyclist are allowed to use the road. The old cycle lanes can still be used and a lot of people who aren’t used to cycle on the road are happy about it.
They will probably get rid of the old cycle lane once the road will be renewed at some point. Until then you can choose which one you want to use.
It’s been like this for at least several months, so if it’s work in progress, they’re doing it very slow.