Comment by datsci_est_2015
2 days ago
Oh I guess I didn’t know the distinction. As a user of both I actually prefer the footpath based to the segregated bike lanes, although it seems to work best on the widest of Berlins streets where all of the following can coexist laterally:
- Storefront
- Outdoor seating
- Footpath (room for both ways)
- Bike lane (one way)
- Greenery (trees or shrubs)
- Car door buffer
- Parking lane
- One or two lanes one way traffic
- Green median
- All the above mirrored for the other side
Example of this is Yorckstr. south of Mitte
Inclined to agree; only real problem with the on-street ones (presuming there's enough room for them) is that visitors unfamiliar with them tend to walk in them and cause a nuisance. The first time I was in Berlin I nearly got hit by a couple of bikes before I realised that the slightly-differently-coloured footpath meant something...