Fietspads

Here is one style of off street cycle path that is the primary network for bicycles here in the Netherlands. This one borders a park on the right so has wider medians than normal and is nicely treelined. Far right is the pedestrian sidewalk, then the fietspad, nice wide median, two way street with parallel parking on both sides. The other side has the same fietspad/sidewalk setup without the medians. I would say most fietspads are about 3 bikes wide. Even though there are fietspads on both sides of the road, you can expect two way traffic on all of them, though most people ride in the direction of the auto traffic. The other interesting thing about the fietspads is that mopeds/small scooters are allowed on them as well, but are limited to 30kph. Yeah right! At least you can usually hear them coming from a ways off. I think the last photo means "vintage Peugeot ahead".