Bicycle lanes are made by allocating part of a road to bicycles or by building off-road paths.
Bicycle lanes and paths should
On-road bicycle lanes should be located on the outer edge of the road surface. They should be between 1.5 and 3 meters wide. Where traffic speeds or volumes are higher, wider lanes are needed, to allow more space between through traffic and bicycles.
On-road bicycle lanes can be indicated using painted line markings and can also be marked at regular intervals with a cycle symbol. They may also have a colored surface to increase their visibility. This is useful in complex environments, such as intersections.
On-road bicycle lanes can be created using existing sealed road space or by sealing the road shoulder.
Where traffic speeds and bicyclist numbers are too low to justify a bicycle lane, advisory signs can be used to remind other road users that bicyclists may also use the road.
Off-road bicycle paths
are safer than on-road lanes, and can be used as part of on-road lanes
to bypass road sections where mixing motor vehicles and bicyclists is
not safe. Off-road bicycle paths are usually shared with pedestrians.
Shared paths should be signed to encourage bicyclists to give way to
pedestrians and to encourage pedestrians to keep to one side of the
path.
Off-road bicycle paths should be between 2 and 5 metres wide
(for both directions combined) depending on function (bicycles only, or
shared) and bicycle and pedestrian volumes.
By viewing all the posted about bicycle facilities in your blog, i would struggle the possibility to having bicycle facilities in our country especially in Penang State.
ReplyDelete1. Penang's land price is high, and we are facing limitation of land. It seems like we just affordable to having a normal transportation road lane in Penang state.
2. Cycle activity to school and work is consider weak compare to other states and international country. In fact, cycle activity had increased in Penang, however it just plays as sport activity in non-office hour only.Currently, I would think that bicycle facilities are enough applying in certain recreation park.
Overall, I am supporting your sharing information bicycle facilities in this blog. And, i do think that bicycle facilities in our country is really low.