The fatal conditions of bicycle lanes in Szczecin.

Bicycle path in Szczecin. The path ends and... you can choose - riding on lawn or on bumpy cobblestones ? Have a nice ride ! cc photo: ilm19

"More than 700 hundred pages and photos exposes the fatal conditions of bicycle lanes"

This is the headline I found today reading the Szczecin local newspaper "Moje Miasto" (My City).

This report is the result of the initiative "Bikes Without Barriers" that invited all city-bikers in Szczecin to show off their complaints, and document them, with photographies and videos. "The result of it, is that we only can be ashame!"says the subheading of the page.

Tomasz Loga, one of the authors of the report, assures that they went through every single bike path, collected information from the users and citizens and concludes that a lot of work and investment is needed. With this action they showed off the bad conditions bikers in Szczecin suffer. For instance how some bike lanes are half the width they are supposed to be, or how often we find streetlamps, trees or cars parked in the middle of the path.

You can download the full report, of 722 pages lenght and Polish language, here.

And, as an end, a video, of the Aleja Wojska Polskiego, showing a piece of what this raport says.
More videos, and the full article here. Have a nice weekend.



Source: Moje Miasto Szczecin (POL)
More info: Rowerowy Szczecin (POL)