A completely new bike path in Tallinn, Estonia

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by Double-decker_trams

28 comments
  1. It looks like they couldn’t decide between making it part of the sidewalk or to put a bike lane, so they decided to do something in between.

  2. why so many crossing signs?
    If you need a sign every two meters, shouldn’t you then redesign the crossing to be more intuitively visible?

  3. In the Balkans this would be a sign that whichever politician signed on this particular piece of infrastructure has a good friend who has a business selling street signs and is willing to give him a cut of the profits.

  4. Near my hometown in Italy i’ve seen a far worse bike path.

    It is half a kilometer of bike path interrupted every 50 or less meters because there are exits from side streets and each interruption has a quite strong descent which, if it doesn’t make you end up on a car, it will make you end up in a muddy ditch, at least here it’s just pedestrians crossing it.

    Obviously there is a sign for the end and re-start of the cycle path at every interruption as in this photo

  5. I see we aren’t the only country that needlessly clutters cities with an insane amount of traffic signs.

    But at least you have bike paths, unlike us.

  6. My favorite part of this picture is the two cars parked on what looks to be the middle of the sidewalk.

  7. Why do all countries try to reinvent the wheel? Why not consult with countries that have a lot of experience with bike infrastructure?

  8. Goodness, horrible planning, all those signs, blocking the view, wasting space…
    so many metal railings etc… Estonia, you can do better! That looks like a bike path from the 90s

  9. That’s a ton of pedestrian crossings and signs lol, looks weird to navigate.

    Should have made it like NL.

  10. The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals would allow less awful use of signs

    * They could have a white sign under the first sign showing [ 6 x ] indicating that there are 6 crossings in succession
    * They could have a white sign under the first sign showing [ ↑ 200m ↑ ] indicating crossings the next 200m

    What they did is an abomination.

  11. In Poland they just paint pedestrian crossing but don’t put a sign. So it’s not a pedestrian crossing. Just a pretend pedestrian crossing. Which is nothing but is painted nonetheless.

  12. As a German I get the feeling that I’d feel at home in Tallinn, this is a German bureacrazy level of signs πŸ˜€

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