Comments on: Planet Car http://workbike.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/planet_car/ Living simply in an over-complicated world Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:53:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andy in Germany http://workbike.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/planet_car/#comment-1031 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:54:07 +0000 http://workbike.wordpress.com/?p=1702#comment-1031 I know what you mean, I was watching cars and trying to make eye contact with the driver. all the way there.

That’s the trouble with cycle lanes as opposed to cycle infrastructure. Lanes last as long as the council’s enthusiasm, which isn’t usually very far.

]]> By: Andy in Germany http://workbike.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/planet_car/#comment-1030 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:51:15 +0000 http://workbike.wordpress.com/?p=1702#comment-1030 Hi Anna…

Yes, we have all of those here, although signage is getting better. Most of out cy<cle lanes run until the towns, and as soon as the roads start to get narrow (as in: When you really need to cycle lane) they vanish.

There are other local places much better than Ostfildern. I'll cover some of those soon.

]]> By: disgruntled http://workbike.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/planet_car/#comment-1029 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:11:36 +0000 http://workbike.wordpress.com/?p=1702#comment-1029 I find now when I’m in a car that I can’t get used to the assumption that I’m not invisible. If I see a car waiting to turn across traffic or get onto a roundabout I’m completely prepared for it to launch itself right in my path as though I’m not there … or on a bicycle.

Our few bike paths are actually really nicely signed, we’ve got what amounts to a ‘bypass’ with regular junctions indicating which road they connect to. Just like a proper bypass. It’s lovely. Shame it’s only three miles long…

]]> By: anna http://workbike.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/planet_car/#comment-1028 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:38:33 +0000 http://workbike.wordpress.com/?p=1702#comment-1028 True indeed. But it’s not just that the “network” is missing. Also the labeling lacks. I get constantly lost on cycle paths I use for the first time. Because, for example, they are sometimes too far away from the “real road” in order to be able to read street names and such. I just never know where I have to turn. Or sometimes the cycle paths turns without telling me where it goes (and leaving me no way to get off either).

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