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by MichaelRo 918 days ago
Very interesting link (@Not Just Bikes), didn't think it's so bad in the US with pedestrian walkways.

I mean like I live in the Romanian suburb and it's not great, but supermarkets everywhere and walkways alongside car roads is the norm. What we still try to catch up is Netherland-ish bike lanes, problem's when they do it at all, "they" (city roadworks) implement it in a very Balkan way: they made a bike lane allright but every 10 meters there's a crossing with a 10 cm bump, makes biking on the lane rather impractical if not impossible.

https://imgur.com/a/iCCQJRt

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After having a look at the picture, it's obvious that bump is not by design, if you take the height of the asphalt layer into account, which is visible to the right side, but not there yet, where the bike lane is crossing the layer of compacted gravel.

So you are complaining about what is essentially an unfinished construction site ;-)

That aside, I tend to fly over such obstacles by jumping, since I can't remember anymore exactly. Early childhood, or such.