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Cycleways are small infrastructure projects which makes cycling easier , for the experienced and inexperienced.I’m suprised with all the detail in some places that these have been left out. I have made a small section in Burnieside-Devonport which runs along Thnn xe s phers so.
Discussion
Comment from deshrulex on 13 October 2019 at 05:33
If these details are usually done when you have a well defined area that would be the last thing I would do in one of my cities because the details are where more time is spent but in the end the result is tailor-made, but following the subject I first would make more city at a medium level to start adding details
Comment from Luciano on 13 October 2019 at 13:52
Separated Cycleways (i.e. separated from Traffic/Pedestrian areas) are a very recent development in urban planning. Certainly I’m old enough to remember when NO city in US had cycleways. And most places I’ve lived outside of the US have cycleways even now (Seoul has zero, to speak of, and I don’t recall seeing many in Mexico City).
So..
Wouldn’t it contribute to realism, in many cases, to specifically NOT have cycleways?
Comment from Luciano on 13 October 2019 at 13:53
CORRECTION to above: “… most places I’ve lived outside of the US DON’T have cycleways even now…”
Comment from Rustem Pasha on 13 October 2019 at 14:02
It depends. In Europe, especially west, they are everywhere. Most of them are indeed recent developments but they are present also in the old parts of the cities (appeared during renovation). So it depends from what the country takes the inspiration.
Comment from Luciano on 13 October 2019 at 14:09
@Rustem Of course. That’s my point. Cycleways are a great idea, IF the area you’re working on is inspired by a part of the world that has cycleways. The original post makes it sound like they are inevitable and present in all cities places. My only point is that that isn’t necessarily true.
Comment from iiEarth on 13 October 2019 at 17:13
In most of the towns and cities in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I reside), mainly all towns have ‘cycle infrastructure,’ or, as it is known here, ‘bike lanes.’ I find it pretty convenient when biking as we do not have to share it with pedestrians who either move slowly, clogging it up for fast bikers, or limit our freedom of movement due to us needing to think how to avoid crashing against somebody or how to maintain the perfect speed. Maybe bike lanes don’t exist in downtowns here, but in most places they do.
Comment from MOI N on 13 October 2019 at 20:01
Thanks for the education . just pointing out it.
Comment from Picard-Lindelöf on 15 October 2019 at 18:27
Concerning the mapping, is it standard to map a cycle way if it runs along a normal road? So far I have never thought of explicitly mapping sidewalks and cycle paths in OGF (unless they appear separated from roads, like in a park). On the real-world openstreetmap they are mapped sometimes and sometimes they are not…