What a City Would Look Like If It Were Designed for Only Bikes
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#2That "bike friendly" apartment block looks extremely pedestrian hostile
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#3A bike ramp into the apartment is useless. You can just take the elevator with your bike, or you know... Just make a garage for bikes on ground floor. The article doesn't really say much about how to design a city for bicycles, which mostly comes down to providing good roads where you aren't bothered by cars.
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#4That "bike friendly" apartment block looks extremely pedestrian hostile
Yes, what they have done here is replace landscapes marred by roads with landscapes marred by paved bike paths. Even as a cyclist I'd say it's not a very nice solution.
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#5A secure/convenient place to lock your bike at ground level is better.
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#6For one thing, you wouldn't have to look at old or infirm people...
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#7A bike ramp into the apartment is useless. You can just take the elevator with your bike, or you know... Just make a garage for bikes on ground floor. The article doesn't really say much about how to design a city for bicycles, which mostly comes down to providing good roads where you aren't bothered by cars.
Yep, I live in the Netherlands and my apartment complex has a separate entrance to a bicycle storage area on street level, which connects to the central hallway. Parking's only half the story though. You also need to feel safe to ride a bike, which requires infrastructure and attitude.
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#8I'm confused as to why they created bike paths in apartment building hallways.
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#9That "bike friendly" apartment block looks extremely pedestrian hostile
The "hallway with lanes"? The thing that isn't obvious at first glance (but is more obvious in further design depictions) is that it is setup like a miniature version of a typical street in which to the immediate sides of the bike lanes are "bike parking" spots and on the far sides of those spots are pedestrian "side walks".
It seems like a fair design to me.
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#10I'm confused as to why they created bike paths in apartment building hallways.
Indoor races when the weather is bad? :-)