BIKING SAN SEBASTIAN, PART II

After our Spanish lessons this morning we set out on another bike ride in San Sebastian, appreciating the fact that the temperature here today was 65ºF.  I have written prior posts on this blog about our first biking experience in San Sebastian as well as Barcelona. A lot of the bike lanes here are "cycle tracks," which are intended to be used exclusively for bicycles and are safely separated from vehicle travel lanes, rather than solely adding paint striping onto the same roadway used by cars. Cycle tracks are super family-friendly. I yearn for more of these in Austin! Truly yearn. We rode our bikes around San Sebastian today for 3 hours, primarily on the city's cycle tracks. One of the key safety features of the cycle tracks here is the use of bollards where the bike lane runs on the street. With the use of these, even when we were riding right next to cars, I felt like my children were safe. The bollards here appear to be plastic, so I assume they would be fairly reasonably priced to install.

In front of our apartment.

Cycle track separated from road via a curb cut.

Late lunch stop. Yes, he ate the whole sandwich,
although not in one sitting.

Plastic bollards separate bike riders here
from vehicular traffic.

Close up of a bollard.

Daily gelateria stop -- which is why we had to bike for 3 hours!

Great publication on cycle tracks prepared for Portland's regional government, analyzing best practices for cycle tracks, including findings from Amsterdam and Copenhagen: Cycle Tracks: Lessons Learned.