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05 March 2010

Separated Bike Infrastructure - 1915

Great shot of a man marking off the position of another bicycle lane/cycle track in Copenhagen, ca. 1915.

Nice and wide. Just like we like 'em, even today.

3 thinking out louds:

Peter said...: Before 1915 nearly all of the traffic was street cars and bikes. Bikes had full use of the road. I'm guessing that as cars became more common the city decided to restrict where the bikes could ride ( with these bike lanes) to give the cars more room. Kind of a sad day if this is correct.; 17:12
Green Idea Factory said...: This should be an interesting discussion...; 21:15
Peter said...: I forgot horse-drawn carts, if Copenhagen was anything like NYC back then. Between all the electric omnibuses, horse carts, bikes, pedestrians crossing the road and the occasional automobile, NYC streets were quite busy.

This street looks amazing unbusy for a dense urban street.

I wasn't putting down the bike lanes, just saying that this marked the end of an era when bikes had free use of the roads and car culture started. So sorta a sad photo.

Someone else who saw this said that to them it was actually a restriction of where the cars could go. So the end of the free movement of cars everywhere ( not that there were THAT many in 1915). Glass half empty vs. half full.

Without the lanes, it's possible that bicycling would have fallen more than it did.; 22:53

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