Having cycled in that pedestrian zone several months ago when I was in Brussels, I can certainly see why they would want to ban cycling in the area.
I got the impression that it was too busy with pedestrians to meaningfully cycle there. It would be better if cyclists dismount and walk if they need to be there, and otherwise cycle around the area.
The alternative suggestion in the article to clearly mark a bike lane with paint, would only work if the pedestrians also honour the paint by not walking in the bikelane. Somehow I doubt that that will happen.
Sometimes cycling and walking are incompatible, especially if there is large masses of people. If you can’t have both keeping the space as pedestrian-only seems like the preferable outcome.
Yup. The major problem with cyclists and various flavors of scooter, both regular and especially electric, is that they seem to think of themselves as pedestrians, when they’re in fact vehicles (incidentally, a major problem for cyclists is being considered pedestrians by car drivers).
It’s plainly visible when you’re standing at a red light and see a bike split lanes, get on the zebra, veer right, get onto the perpendicular zebra, make the crossing like a pedestrian, and get back onto the road and drive off. Or, for an example I’ve seen in Amsterdam, a woman with a baby in the back, going 20kmh, just plow straight into 20 people with no braking and expect them to part for her like she were pushing her way through a crowd with a stroller. From my experience, cyclists in pedestrian zones treat foot traffic as bad if not worse than drivers treat bike traffic.
Having cycled in that pedestrian zone several months ago when I was in Brussels, I can certainly see why they would want to ban cycling in the area.
I got the impression that it was too busy with pedestrians to meaningfully cycle there. It would be better if cyclists dismount and walk if they need to be there, and otherwise cycle around the area.
The alternative suggestion in the article to clearly mark a bike lane with paint, would only work if the pedestrians also honour the paint by not walking in the bikelane. Somehow I doubt that that will happen.
Sometimes cycling and walking are incompatible, especially if there is large masses of people. If you can’t have both keeping the space as pedestrian-only seems like the preferable outcome.
Yup. The major problem with cyclists and various flavors of scooter, both regular and especially electric, is that they seem to think of themselves as pedestrians, when they’re in fact vehicles (incidentally, a major problem for cyclists is being considered pedestrians by car drivers).
It’s plainly visible when you’re standing at a red light and see a bike split lanes, get on the zebra, veer right, get onto the perpendicular zebra, make the crossing like a pedestrian, and get back onto the road and drive off. Or, for an example I’ve seen in Amsterdam, a woman with a baby in the back, going 20kmh, just plow straight into 20 people with no braking and expect them to part for her like she were pushing her way through a crowd with a stroller. From my experience, cyclists in pedestrian zones treat foot traffic as bad if not worse than drivers treat bike traffic.