If you want to exprience our "terrible bicycle problem" yourself, here's a video I recorded a few years ago of me biking through the area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUHHBbz_kQ
(Said tram stop is roughly at the start of the video.)
@Mara I wish Germany was this terrible.
@Mara lovely, I wish the city where I live had this much bike infrastructure. There are some very nice scenic bike routes outside of town, but inside it's mostly narrow lanes painted on pre-existing sidewalks and roads and most of the drivers take them as suggestions at best or outright ignore them.
I've read some anecdotal evidence that having streamers on your bicycle handlebars has the effect of making cars give you your space in bicycle lanes.
I'd love it if someone did a study on that.
@Mara That is truly amazing. I'm so embarrassed to be American too much of the time 🤦♀️
Also, that American has clearly never been in NYC. I often wonder how other cities do it, but most are not as dense as Manhattan. There are so many types, regular people with bikes, tourists on city bikes, food delivery people on electric bikes, box and parcel delivery people also on electric bikes, and regular scooters and electric scooters going in all directions. Your ride was serene 😊
@Mara Do you have an electric bike or are you just really fast?
@Mara you have bike ROADS? I want that! (US - Texas - suburb. We have sidewalks and riding trails that are not meant to get you around the city, just for recreation)