sadly not. new bike paths get a lot of critzism form the users. city government is unwilling to listen to any outside advice and comes out with total nonsens solutions. bike paths are where they are not needed, mostly dangerous - lampposts in the middle of very narrow bike lanes, and always share the room with either cars or pedestrians. the city came up with their own "bike network", which is 300km long and means that bike paths are any pedestrian roads where there is a sign for bikes. it makes you wonder why they dont just include every pedestrian road as the choice is random and makes no sense. the is no criteria for these shared roads but every new pedestrian road is called "pedestrian and bicycle path" without any difference from a usual pedestrian road - usually 1.5m minumum in tallinn with lamp and street sign posts blocking the middle of the path. sorry but that is the case here. the sad part is that the city's media empire is talking about tallinn being the greenest european capital (it hopes to become it with some fake reports), but mayor declaring that instead of the dutch model we should adopt an american transport model. that is just heartbreaking.
tartu has gone to other direction and in taking cycling as a mean of transport. free electric bikes all over the town and so on. since they have vision, it will only get better.
tartu has gone to other direction and in taking cycling as a mean of transport. free electric bikes all over the town and so on. since they have vision, it will only get better.
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