Bicycles are an amazing form of transportation — they get you from A to barn chop-chop , without harming the environment , and they ’re marvelous exercise . But biking in a city or on a highway can also be unsafe . So for over 100 years , multitude have designed elevated main road just for bikes — and a couple of them have even been make . Here ’s a arresting verandah of elevated bicycle main road designs from 1900 to today .
The California Cycleway, intended to connect Pasadena and Los Angeles, but only a 1.3 mile (2 km) part of the bikeway made of pine was opened in 1900.
It had a 10 cent toll for one - way trips , or 15 cents for a round trip , but never made a profit . It was dismantled after a few age .
( viaWikimedia Commons )
Velo-City, a large-scale high-speed network of bike lanes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a proposed project by Chris Hardwicke, 2006
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A proposed 1.25 mi (2 km) long elevated path named Harbourlink, between the bridge to St. Leonards Park and Falcon Street along the Warringah Freeway in North Sydney, Australia, 2007
( viaThe Sydney Morning Herald )
The Hovenring, a suspended bicycle path roundabout (a circular suspension bridge, in fact) between Eindhoven and Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands, designed by the ilv Delft design agency, opened in June 2012.
The steel span has a 236 ft ( 72 m ) diameter and is suspend from a 230 ft ( 70 m ) tall pylon .
( viaHovenring )
The Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake), a 770 ft (235 m) long cycle bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by DISSING+WEITLING Architecture between 2010 and 2012
( viaDAC&LIFE )
The planned B1 Veloway across Melbourne, Australia, estimated to cost $18 million, designed in 2012 by a consortium of architects
( viaYarra River )
SkyCycle of London, a 136-mile network of ten elevated cycle highways in London, designed by Lord Norman Foster in 2013
Each main road could accomodate 12,000 cyclists per hour and there would be 200 entrances in laboured dealings areas .
( viaFoster and Partners )
Bonus : Underground Cycling Tubes in London , an musical theme from 1996 , compiled by Henry Turner
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