13 Of The Worst Bike Lanes & Cycle Ways In The World
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 08. 2024
- We all want more bike lanes and cycling infrastructure where we live, but not all bike paths are made equal. Some of them can actually be really bad. We asked you to send in the worst cycle ways that you'd seen and these are 13 of the worst from across the world.
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Can imagine the strategic planning meeting at Leeds council an hour before the end of financial year.
Our KPIs are looking good across the board except Alan in sustainable transport tells me that our commitment to creating 1.5 miles of dedicated cycle paths this year has fallen 9 feet short.
How can we address this?
In Denver, CO, USA thereâs a lovely sign in my neighborhood that says âRight lane for bikes and parking only.â
Soooo itâs for parking. Just parking.
oh my lord that'd give me an anxiety attack
Definitely expected there to be one on the top three right?!?!
@@jamesroalson5269 11th and Osage basically is the one I see regularly after getting off the light rail. To be honest, it's short and there's a more standard kind of trash bike lane after only like a block or two, but I still hate it because I see it as the city padding their total number of bike lanes/miles with crap that can never be used as an actual bike lane.
Here in Australia all bike lanes are also for parking. Pretty useless.
Why should you park your bike there?
I am from Eastern Europe and I could fill top 10 by just looking trough my window
We don't have bike lanes, we have car parks. (Macedonia)
Lol no bike lanes in Ukraine
Iâm from the Netherlands and I donât have to worry about that shit
@@christiaanvanstek1300 i couldnât tell
@@christiaanvanstek1300 LUCKY!
This should be a regular thing on the channel and you probably should go and ride / name and shame the worst offenders.
I would take an angle grinder to the guard rail in that Lisbon one.
id love to watch them try and ride these paths
As a cyclist living in Hong Kong:
Already riding probably 15-20 km/h (on weekdays, very late night to avoid holiday riders and commuting crowd), slow down and be 120% cautious and alert at every turn, downhill, uphill, with sufficient lighting, bell (sometimes shout politely to some careless pedestrians and night runners who run in non-reflective / light-colored outfit), avoiding broken bollards, gravel from construction site nearby. When you think you are safe....
(insert: bgm when encounter a Pokémon in bush)
A fat kid on the pedestrian road suddenly sprinted out through the bush
Set up a Strava segment for that Leeds bike âpath â.
Strava's minimum segment length is way longer than that.
If you can't do a strava then how about get all the local clubs to come and ride the route and have the mayor give out prizes to the finishers.
Or what about a GCN presenter clip-in challenge?
haha Maybe the CST will sponsor a time trial using laser timing gates.
Thought the same thing!
In Australia, it's only a bike lane until a car feels like parking in it, then it's a car park. We also have a sub-species of not-quite-humanoid called the "glass-smashing bogan", aka idiots in Commodores who droop beer bottles into bike lanes to deliberately create tyre destroying shards of glass.
My upload featured by GCN?! I can pass away in peace now.
This was so hilarious! You'll have to do a part 2, or even 3.
Good job guys, keep publicly shaming cities till they figure it out! How about another segment for best bike paths so the nimrods can see examples of the correct way to build a cycle lane.
@@bradbouffiou7617 it only makes sense that most people drive cars, with cities giving us lanes like this to ride.
The Dutch will have nightmares watching this đ
Is this Episode 2 of Jeremy's "How to Build a CX Course" video?
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Grande Chile!
Seriously, we've got some amazing bike lanes and countryside/long mountain routes in Santiago, but some insanely crap urban bike lanes too. I've never seen the one Danilo sent you in person, but holy crap that's funny and terrible.
what a huge save for Santiago, you've seen nothing!!
A while ago a new bike lane opened up somewhere in Chile, don't remember where exactly, but the police were there as part of the opening, along with the mayor and some local cyclists and some media. Where did the cops park their car? LITERALLY IN THE BIKE LANE! Of course!
Shows you only where we bikers stand in the politiciansâ view.
Philippines: "Oh you have bike lanes?"
Well we dont
Over here in south east asia we haven't even figured out sidewalks yet
So the orange diamond "Share the road" is actually a construction warning; the Bike Lane is closed due to construction and the sign is there to tell bikes to merge with traffic.
But there are "Bike lane closed" signs for that.
We have share the road signs around our city. They are permanent signs here, not construction signs and are there to remind people that bikes are allowed to ride in the street. But in reality it makes people think that bikes are only allowed on the streets with those signs. Some streets have share the road painted on the pavement too.
Lately in Malta, a cycle Lane was done. The thing is that it leads you straight to a wall. đ
Oh yay! I've been waiting for this đđ»đ Now, let me watch đ
the text on the bridge at 0:25 just says a bunch of facts about the bridge (year it was built, length, etc.)
âI think youâre crazy if you call yourself a bike lane.â
âThen just call me a cycle path!â
7:59 Yes, you have to use the bikelane in Germany, when you come across this blue sign, but only, if the path is in a useable condition and has no obsticles, so here theese constrains are obviously not fulfilled.
Great idea for video guys - please do more
Great video. Glad you still want more. I could half fill another video with examples from Ipswich and Colchester! I assume you will have had zero suggestions from Holland.
4:57 Caption: "Triathlon-Path"
first triathlon ever on a brompton!
0:28 i know Japanese people arent tall but damn
I know a few midgets that would still have to get off their bike for that one
@@rueichengkuo2557 hahaha
Even hobbits have to duck there.
@@NexuJin not even duck but crawl under while dragging your bike on it side,
I know the one in Tokyo on the Tamagawa bike path. The photo is not quite fair as there is another sign (in Japanese of course) telling people not to use it, as there is an alternate path with plenty of headroom running parallel to the path shown here.
That being said, some people still head up to it, and it is impossible to guess why they bothered to build it in the first place.
Bike runs into a house...
Si: Ah, there's another one. LOLOLOLOL
Well done guys, love the humour, how about drooling over the 10 Best Cycleways...
You guys should do a "worst bike paths" video with Danny MacAskill, Ali Clarkson or Duncan Shaw. They would show you guys how to ride them... or some of them.
Or maybe make it a weekly or bi-weekly segment
I know this is all meant to be in good humour, but I can't help feeling rage at the the utter contempt road planners have for cyclists. I see endless examples of this personally, including cycle lanes/routes that lead directly into a wall or river, ones that pointlessly span only a small section of road, or what is probably the most contemptuous one yet: a years old sign for a cycle lane that was never built, just a few feet away from another sign that says "no cycling".
As soon as I saw the title I thought "There's at least one from Portugal, I know it." Sure enough...
In NYC we donât have bike lanes, theyâre parking space.
You made me laugh so hard I could not drink my coffee!
#3 by Madness - "Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our
Our house, in the middle of our street"
#2 Looks like something Simon Pegg can come up from Big Train.
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Hilarious! I could pick some examples from our little town, but they are a bit different, but still not only bad but really dangerous.
GCN terrible bike lanes 2020 calendar please
Yes! đ
The stairs have a "Walk your bike" sign at the top.
I don't understand how people can plan or build bike paths like that... like do they have no professional pride?
Yeah its pretty sad as these are all council installed and therefore "planned"!?
Imagine if bike races had to be held on bike paths. I always think that when seeing them on TV. What a hilarious shitshow that'd be.
The Chile one makes sense, actually. When your country is approximately the width of a linguini noodle -- and I assume this path runs north-to-south -- a lot of infrastructure's got to share the exact same space.
I'm so happy California allows bikes to use any lane even if there's a bike path, sometimes this just happens. (Plus we get to filter, a lifesaver in traffic)
The camera work today is really popping the presenters into view. Nice work by the director. A+ job
Thanks Pulkit!
There are heaps here in melbourne on busy roads which double as parking for cars, meaning you need to swerve out into traffic if you use them, more dangerous than not having a bike lane.
They must be international bike lanes. We have the same thing in Erie Pennsylvania. đ
Hahaha that Hong Kong bike path đ the ones at Tai Mei Tuk are quite the adventure
very funny segment!
That "Share the Road" sign is pretty common around the Mesa, AZ area. It's usually combined with a "Bike Lane Ends" sign. And a "Road Work Ahead" sign.
It's supposed to let both cyclists and motorists that they have to share. Their effectiveness is debatable. I normally avoid the things like the plague.
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Yes I also assumed it was telling you to merge due to roadworks.
Was expecting to see some London ones here, but somewhat happy there's worst bike lanes out there than what we have
Leeds one is Epic!!đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł Proper council job. đđđđ€
A few similar to that in Darlington. All hailing back to when it was a cycling demonstration town (!).
Like you say, got the grubby claws of local councildom all over them. Clearly road and traffic planners have never seen a bicycle in their lives.
So entertaining!
I recognize that thumbnail right away. Home âsweetâ home
Send these councils official awards!
Epic bike lane in Hong Kong đđđ
Share the road. Means bike lane unusable, the Bikes are now going to have to mix in with traffic. Munich looks like a recent flood. Hopefully, it will be fixed. Great video.
Ah yes, Hong Kong makes the list.
A lot of the bike path is actually really good and we have a bike path the size of a road connecting two districts, but most of the bike path are short segments interrupted by road with bollards at each end, leading to the situation at 3:30.
I donât have a car and donât plan on getting one, as Iâm riding bikes to work. I find this humorous.
Love your interpretation of the Japanese text, but in fact no mention of clearance is made whatsoever! (FWIW, the actual bike path diverts around this -- I have no idea why they even bothered paving under it.)
"Share the Road" signs normally denote an upcoming construction or work zone, which explains the orange cones seen in the background.
Omfg your new mic Is awesome
Going to the opposite end of the scale, the bike paths around Valencia, including in the Turia river park, are absolutely outstanding. Brilliant way to get around the city.
We have a similar one to the one in Leeds in Cardiff. It's to denote to cyclists where they are able to use the shared use pavement.
Please do âbestâ dedicated bike paths.... similar to the Tucson 100 miles plus...
Am I the only one who goes crazy from the reversed audio channels? :P Great video, as always!
Sorry about that Maciek
Global Cycling Network apology accepted ;) Keep up the great work!
Great to see all intro images are from Copenhagen :)
That stair bike lane is nothing, The Sydney Harbour Bridge Stair at the start/end Bike Lane is one of the worst
But if you catch the security guard by surprise you can ride straight down the ramp! Bit hard getting up it though...
Finnish sample over the railwaystation area with a three story staircase at the other end. But it cuts a kilometre so some bicyclists still use it.
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We've got a great one in Rednal (South West Birmingham). There are parking spacers marked out across it!
The bike lane in HK is the entrance and exit point for the park in the background - used by cyclist , runners, walkers etc. Kind of a holding area
0:36 I don't think you'll need that many characters for 'duck' probably recumbents only, I'da thought!
Kid in Leeds: Mum, can I ride my new bicycle?
Kid's mum: Sure, as long as you stay on the bikepath.
Kid: đ
Future GCN show: each week whichever presenter gets most likes on their videos gets sent to the best bike path of the week, least likes goes to worst one...
I kept expecting Denver to have one in the top three. Between Lane on the highway to the airport, 15th Street suicide cross & Left bike lane on Broadway
Government: Bike lanes are pointless, we've made bike lanes and nobody uses them.
The Bike Lanes They Made:
Most of these look like a great cyclocross course!
That one of Tama river is BS, there is an underpass to that bridge, it is paved but it is NOT a section of the cycle lane
The believe the above comment is correct (not sure which bridge this is. What is the km post? (For those who don't know, the Tama has posts indicating the current location in terms of km from the mouth of the river.)
0:51, Peter sagan:
Hold my electrolytes
As a HongKonger, Spot HongKong's worst cycling path on youtube......My brain:Thats not a GCN vid.....wait a minute, arh....damn it of course.
My contender for the worst bike lane is the roundabout next to the French gate at CERN in Geneva. The bike lane from St. Genis feeds into the two lane roundabout that has no markings on the ground and to get to CERN you have to cross the two lane roundabout exit that is the beginning of a highway and the two lane highway end feeding into the roundabout.
It's just ridiculous and actually heavily used because hundreds of people working at CERN come to work by bike.
Glad to see the San Francisco made it on the list but there are far worse examples than that here
Haha. Those are some epic FAILS right there! Hahahahahaha
that cycling lane on norway the house must be a cyclist itself đ
the owner wanted to make sure he got the fastest access to norways cycling lane network. He succeeded in my humble opinion
Those short ones are perfect to ride if you are into track standing...
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Gotta love those one block bike paths.
Thereâs a more narrower and shorter bike lane in Hk đ This one is the second
Where is it. I need to make pilgrimage to it
đ there's even a bike path that says, road is steep, dismount now. It's not even that steep.....
You should have included the Singapore bike paths, they are very bumpy, have poles in the middle of them, are Super curvy unnecessary and they also start and end abruptly. They are the reason why I ride on the road most of the time.
I instantly recognised that Leeds one from the first shot. It's always bemused me. The irony is that there is a a not awful (as strong as I'll go) section of segregated bike path on the grassland in the background, so obviously someone had a hint of how to do it well - but then this!
My daily Commute leads over a bike path which was partly wonderful renewed ... and then comes an edge and you fall 6 cm down onto the old bike path.
Gotta need a tough bike to cycle through all those poles, barriers and fences. Any recommendations?
this is where a battery powered angle grinder at like 2am comes in real handy. Just come back every day for a weeks and those fences will be gone...
In the US, many cities don't even have bike lanes. I'm at a university, and the main roads around campus don't have them, only a sidewalk. The main road has heavy traffic moving at 30-40mph. The bike lanes begins on another main road right before it runs into a highway, making it useless.
Amazed US only had one. Clearly under represented!
America has some shitty infrastructure in general, let alone bike paths lol
The funny thing about the Munich to Venice path is that Venice doesn't allow bikes in the old town. Great path to a bike unfriendly city.
I live close to #7, it was a real shame Vaia tempest blow it away; now, instead of using that cycle way you have to use the main road which is super dangerous (and that's the reason they built the cycle way in the first place).
I really hope they will fix it, but I doubt it :(
Theres a great one at the intersection of The Kingsway and President Avenue in Caringbah, NSW. It existed up until 2018 on google street view.
6:06 at least its longer then it is wide
I got a good bad bike lane in my city. Runs right next to a divided highway and ends at an intersection just before a same-direction-right-turn-slip-lane with absolutely no on ramp for bikes to get onto the adjoining bike path nor any other side walk to jump onto... So either you gonna get cut off by cars OR you gonna go over one nasty bit of a curb XD
Is that Colchester path up the steps or across the top?
If you cycle along the canal paths in East London there are some bridges that curve over the towpath and present some difficulty if you are more than about 5' tall
That's because the horses back then were not much over that height, and as it was built to allow them to pass, it was a perfectly sensible height. Don't blame the bridge for a later change of use.
Iâm sure that weâve seen worse in Australia đŠđș
Please, race the worst bike paths. Make it official. I want to see a peloton!
Should take a look at singapore... we have bi-directional cycling paths that only have 80CM of width.... and most of those paths don't even reach 2 meters
#9, I think this ramp is to push your bike up the stairs, not to ride on. I see this concept in Japan and Taiwan a lot.
Came here to say this.
NYC has some interesting bike paths put in place. Roads made dangerous for both cars and bikes.
When I lived in Dublin in 2007, they had an excellent network of bike paths. They were also bus lanes..........
So when are we going to see a Si vs Hank breakdance comp? For science, clearly.