A NEW FOUR-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY TO BE BUILT ONLY FOR BIKES
via Bicycle Law
TreeHugger.com: A New Four-Lane Superhighway To Be Built Only For Bikes
by A.K. Streeter
If you want to find an unassuming place where bicycling is a way of life and nobody makes a big deal about it, head south. The south of Sweden, that is, where the small university town of Lund has a big bicycle habit. They just don't advertise it.
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The proposed bicycle superhighway would, in addition to four lanes (2 in each direction) have exits but no intersections, two types of wind protection (low bushes as well as solid fencing) periodic bicycle service stations, and would take eight years to complete.
Total cost of the superhighway is estimated to be about 50 million Swedish crowns (US$ 7.1 million).
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