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Anyway, I leave the google maps links to the pictures in the second line, which correspond to the same bike-lane in the first picture line.
Postscript: I painted the bike-lanes in the pictures with blue as you can appreciate them better. In reality they don’t have colored asphalt, just blue in the intersections with car roads at street level, like in Copenhague.
Bogota is a very, veeeeeery large city, so most of the +500km of bike-routes were built in the center of roads, or even highways (as you can appreciate in the first line pictures). At street level I consider them very safety as they are way separated from the traffic using green areas or hard separations. This large bike-lanes can be a good choice when you have to commute a very large distance by bike, which is something common here, though. (For example: I used to bike 14 km between my house and my Univ.)
The problems come when some of this very large bike lanes need to be connected with others; the city has its districts often separated to others by lakes, highways, hills or parks, so the “solution” that has come out, was the extension of the bike lines OVER bridges (that were designed for cars). For many people isn’t a real problem, but the slope of this bridges is, as I said, designed for cars. I’ve seen many people having trouble climbing this routes because they have a very steep slope; children, delivery worker, third age people…
Now, another problem that many people maybe don’t care is the sound. Lets just image you’re climbing the bridge in the first picture (in second line) and suddenly a truck honk for any reason. You may loose the equilibrium and fall, and probably falling into the car lane… with fatal consequences. I don’t want to imagine that that has happen to someone, at least this bike lane is wide so you can cycle in the center.
Hi!,
Actually the traffic lights are for cyclist and pedestrians haha. This road is crossed by some car roads but fortunately they had low traffic volume so its easily (kind of prior) to ignore them (lights). With the time this roads are going to be 4 pedestrians so traffic lights are fortunately temporary.
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A) If I had the opportunity to improve this space, i will apply a colored asphalt and signals to the bike-path. Also I will put a higher physical separation between the street and the bike-path, where trees can be placed. I’ll love to have trees in both sides though, I couldn’t imagine someone cycling during summer in California.
B) As this is in USA (or any other likely country), I believe any kind of inversion wich claims space from car roads (im referring to the space needed for the trees in this case) could end in a fallacy just like the inversion of taxes in more car road or whatevs.
This is Carrera 7ma in Bogotá (Colombia) city center. This used to be the path (link) between native settlements in the area 600 years ago. During the Spanish colony it was know as the “Royal Road” because it was used by the Viceroy in his arrivals from Spain. After the city grew up it became into a tram-way track around 1920s, but it was replaced by buses during 1950 and naturally became into a car road.
During the last decade this road started to be transformed, first by tactic urbanism, then by its complete transformation including a pedestrian zone with a 30 meters wide path and with a bike-lane with 2 meters wide made out of green bricks in order to maintain the pedestrian priority.
· Picture is a screenshot from youtube user Strolling Around Co video in wich you can see the whole road. This is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F37ZLnjdhhI
· Unfortunately Google maps has old footage in that area, but you can see the road while it was being under construction: https://www.google.com/maps/@4.6018096,-74.0731999,3a,75y,354.9h,74.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOQjfF9gVFF5UjmXN71BuQg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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Hallo,
I’m Sebastian and im a junior architect from Bogota, capital and largest city in Colombia.
1· I’ve been enrolled to urban designs & studies since I started at the University.
2· I believe I can give you a formal perspective around cycling infrastructure (inside urban areas) having on mind that I’ve been using the bicycle as my vehicle for 7 years + I have cycled in different cities on my country and Europe such as Amsterdam, Berlin or Malaga and I can tell the differences between them without forget their economic, climatic, geographical or social factors.
Although Covid-19 has transformed our society, I can relate that micro-mobility is going to have a protagonist and strongest role in urban design from now.
3· My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastián-g-tovar/
Gracias c:
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