Germany has them too (Fahrradstrasse). Probably highway=residential with cycleway=something as yet undefined.
Richard On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > I'm curious if bicycle boulevards would qualify as living streets, given > that a living street would most closely describe a bicycle boulevard in > OSM terms, though a bicycle boulevard might lack pedestrian facilities. > Frequently, these are not streets you would want to let the kids play > in, as the volume of fast-moving, near-silent vehicles would present a > very real collision hazard at peak traffic times. This kind of way has > sprung up only in the last 10 years or so, and almost all of them were > formerly highway=residential prior to becoming bicycle boulevards. > > Bicycle boulevards are more major than residential streets > (intersections with residential streets have the residential streets > facing stop signs, to minimize the need for bicycles to stop), > intersections with larger (tertiary or better) ways typically have > restrictions preventing motorists from doing anything but making a right > turn from the bicycle boulevard and/or motorists from the major way from > turning onto the bicycle boulevard, and as often as not have traffic > signals (with more heavily traveled bicycle boulevards changing in favor > of the cyclists in advance, particularly in Portland's Little Bohemia). > At large roundabouts, the bicycle boulevard typically has a cutout > through the central island, with YIELD TO BICYCLES signs on the central > ring of the roundabout (through bicycles typically do not have to stop > or yield, and have the right-of-way over vehicles already in the > roundabout). The restrictions on motorists make bicycle boulevards > unsuitable for rat runs. > > Typically, cycle maps I've seen that are aware of these ways show them > at a much higher priority than they would on your average street map, > with the larger way de-prioritized, in some cases quite severely, > depending on traffic flow and bicycle facilities (such as US 30 Bypass > in Oregon, a primary, typically being shown as a minor through street > like most of the streets intersecting it on cycle maps, with the bicycle > boulevard a few blocks off shown as the primary way across Northeast > Portland). > > I am aware of bicycle boulevards existing in at least three states and > one province, and I'm sure there's more out there, so I'm a little > surprised this hasn't been tackled. > > (Please don't CC me when replying; I get the list, and I don't need two > copies (plus this defeats unsubscribing if someone later wants to leave > the conversation). Please use your mailer's reply-to-list feature or > check your To: and CC: headers!) > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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