I’ve been to Lago di Garda in northern #Italy—spectacular! (olive trees and lemons on a blue lake with the Dolomites looming).
Seeing the bicycle route they've built since makes me want to go back.
🧵 global bike path #bucketlist
Submarine cycling.
In Limburg, #Belgium, the Bokrijk bike path takes you below the surface of a lake in a national park...from a distance, it looks like bike riders’ heads are plowing through the water at speed.
Another Belgian stunner.
Fietsen door de Bomen, "Cycling through the trees," a corkscrewing bike path that takes you up to the treetops in a park in Limburg, #Belgium
A favourite in my own backyard! The 200 km P'tit Train du Nord in #Quebec's Laurentians. Here's 23 seconds of Zen from the last time I did it...
Come to think of it, we're due for another ride on the P'tit Train du Nord. Autumn leaves will soon be out!
Here's a feature I wrote for @WSJ Travel about riding it with my son... wsj.com/articles/bike-…
I'd definitely bring my #frostbike (my winter bike with studded tires) for this one.
Oulu, #Finland, where traffic signs are projected directly onto snowy surface of bike paths.
(Too bad all the travel editors of the world seem to have gone AWOL lately. A few years ago, these would have been the foundation for a great feature...)
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The city of #Llubljana in #Slovenia, population 280,000, kicked cars out of its center 15 years ago.
It's become a paradise for walkers, children, bike-riders.
People with limited mobility can use the free Kavalier electric shuttles to take them where they need to go...
This from the city's tourist board: "In #Ljubljana we believe tourism should be accessible to everyone. ♿️ That's why STIC Ljubljana is now providing a free rental of electric attachment for #wheelchairs."
Room for 42 compact, self-powered, low-emission vehicles.
Or 1 fucking Tesla.
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To Capt. Obvious and Company out there, and there seem to be a lot of you: Clearly not meant to be a photo of an actual bike rack! It's a Brompton folding bike publicity shot.
No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.
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In the three #Tokyo neighborhoods I spent time in over a decade, the streets were refreshingly free of on-street parked cars—certainly compared to North America.
The parking laws lead to some interesting arrangements; cars squeezed into tiny garages (how do you open the door to get out?); car elevators; multi-storey lots where cars are stacked like battery hens.