This is What a Bike-Friendly City Looks Like

Montreal: Youth, extraordinary bravery and helmets are unnecessary.

By Aaron Naparstek

12:47 PM EDT on June 27, 2006

Montreal: Youth, extraordinary bravery and helmets are unnecessary.

Montreal: A two-way, buffered bike lane on a residential street.

Montreal: A two-way, physically-separated bike lane on a busy avenue.

Berlin: Bike lanes along this busy avenue are clearly differentiated from the street and sidewalk using color and physical separation.

Berlin: Bike lanes often share sidewalk space but are clearly separated from pedestrians.

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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