Friday, July 31, 2009
Cycling
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere...people travelling on bikes. Bikes parked double decker outside of the train stations. And for them special bike lanes throughout the cities and towns and through the countryside. I can ride from our house in the suburbs and get to town entirely on bike lanes, usually built up from the street on curbs, but separate from sidewalks for pedestrians and separate from street lanes for buses and lanes for cars.
In some parts of the country, cars have to share the narrow roads with cyclists...but there is easy coexistence. Pedestrians and cyclists ALWAYS have the right of way...in case of an accident, the motorist is ALWAYS at fault unless there is some wildly unusual circumstance. So drivers are very careful, aware that around the corner there just might be you or me on a bike.