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This cycle lane is located in the middle of one of the most crowded avenues of Sao Paulo, and it has places where vehicles can cross to access the other way, and some of them don’t have any traffic light, so the cars have to stop on the cycle lane to see if they can cross.

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a) what incremental improvement would you recommend for this particular example, and

In Barcelona, most of the touristic places, the cyclepath is in the footpath, only with a paint on the floor to separate them. And as tourists, they normally don’t see it, and make the ride complicated and dangerous for both modes. And the cyclepaths around the city aren’t colored also.
b) what kind of political and bureaucratic opposition this improvement would likely encounter

I think that in some places, removing space from cars to put the cyclepath out of the footpath, and also the bureaucratic for the changing of floor colours.

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Here in Barcelona, there are different types of bicycle infrastructures, but for me, this is the type I feel more secure to ride on, because there are physical separations between both ways and the cars, there are two lanes for each side, and also as it’s located in the center, there aren’t people walking in the lane and it’s easier to see if somebody is crossing the street .

[Ruane da Cunha Gracio]

Hello everyone!
My name is Ruane, I´m a brazilian civil engineering living in Barcelona. I came here to specialize me in the mobility area, so I’m making a master in Smart Mobility. The way people move in here is totally different then in Sao Paulo, a car city, and I’ve changed my vision about it as I experienced the safety feeling of riding a bike in a place that has infraestructure to do so. So now, I’m looking forward to focus in this type of transportation.

I’m still learnig about this specific area, but I think that I can contribute with the vision of living in a city full of cars and coming to a place that safety and infraestructures to cycle really matters.

My linkedin profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruane-gracio-5718a4109/

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