The best painted bike lane in the world?

[Deleted member 121159]

Painted bike lanes are loathed by cyclists and cycling campaigners worldwide but this one in Oulu, Finland (from BicycleDutch Youtube channel) is a world apart. Is this the best painted bike lane in the world? Cyclists get as much, if not more, space as drivers! (Filmed from the cyclist's perspective.)

 

[Drago]

Still nothing to physically prevent motorists going for a jolly over it though.

 

[Bristolian]

There's probably not much risk of that. The Finns are rather more law abiding and (not to put too fine a point on it) decent people to do that deliberately. Accidents, of course, can happen anywhere.

 

[Deleted member 121159]

Still nothing to physically prevent motorists going for a jolly over it though.

There's probably not much risk of that. The Finns are rather more law abiding and (not to put too fine a point on it) decent people to do that deliberately. Accidents, of course, can happen anywhere.

I think the beauty of this is that (especially compared to our abysmal painted lanes) it so clearly says "This space is for cyclists". It leaves absolutely no room for doubt as to whether cyclists should be there and gives them total legitimacy to be there. Drivers' rage at seeing cyclists on the road comes from the erroneous belief that cyclists shouldn't be there, so it eliminates that problem.

 

[Sallar55]

A jolly on this one is a visit to the garage

Still nothing to physically prevent motorists going for a jolly over it though.

 

[Alex H]

Also, in Bordeaux

 

[rydabent]

A jolly on this one is a visit to the garage

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Those wedges at the side would stop most drivers.

 

[Alex321]

Those wedges at the side would stop most drivers.

I think his point was that anybody NOT stopped by them would be requiring a visit to the garage for repairs