Re: [Ebbc-Talk] In Bike-Friendly Copenhagen, Highways For Cyclists

A superhighway by definition is an uninterrupted flow facility, such as 
a freeway or motorway. A conventional city street with traffic signals 
is an interrupted flow facility, so calling a bike lane with some 
priority features on such a street a "superhighway" is misleading.

Bob Shanteau


On 9/2/2012 8:53 AM, Mike Jones wrote:
> London already has Cycling Super Highways, and I rode one (CS7) this summer.
> http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/11901.aspx
>
> Like the ones planned for Copenhagen they follow the main roads for faster
> and more direct routes (think Collage Ave, not even Telegraph). They
> couldn't be built here in US they're too much of a compromise! Outside peak
> hours trucks and other delivery vehicles can be parked in them (limited
> spots and times), and at all times they are shared with buses. All the same,
> the one I took largely worked. The blue colored route clearly shows you the
> way, but you don't have to ride in it; and with a truck parked in it you
> cannot. Strategic, sections of bike-lanes and bike boxes at signals give
> bikes an advantage, but sharing is the name of the game. The only place the
> system really fails is at the large multi-laned roundabouts- this just
> aren't meant for bikes and critics say the system is making cyclists think
> otherwise- with fatal results.
>
> Mike

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