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I just realized my county built out trails instead of bike lanes (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by anthoniix@kbin.social to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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Instead of building bikelanes my county has opted for trails, which honestly is not a bad option. Or at the very least, better than nothing. The way they did it was just by turning a lot of the sidewalks into multi use paths, so it makes a lot of sense I didn't notice that I could use them.

There's quite a few of them, and it definitely makes me feel safer that I can just ride on the "sidewalk" on a lot of the busy streets.

I kind of wish they would advertise this shit more because I literally had no idea, it's like it's hiding in plain site on their website.

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[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think i can't really follow. What's the difference between a cycle path and a cycle trail? A cycle trail is just some recreational route or what?

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's not a cycle path, it's a multi-use path. So anyone can use it, including cyclists. The difference here is that these paths look like sidewalks, and run along major streets/highways.

Think "big sidewalk" that you can cycle on.