The issue of bike lanes is a somewhat controversial among users of urban bike. There are supporters and detractors (who call them derogatory manner "Vias segregated"). Without going into the controversy that currently has no rationale, in my opinion, on the island, if it is true that they are practically nonexistent in our metropolitan area. The only bike path which deserves the name is the time between the Marine Park and Valleseco. Until recently there was a second track bike in La Laguna, which was between the Market and the Plaza del Cristo, parallel to and Grimon Nava Street (formerly Water Street) but has now been deprived of this function and invaded by motorized traffic. This practice stopped the specific infrastructures are devoted to cycling in the metropolitan area. These two bicycle lanes are intended more as ways to enjoy leisure cycling, to be true ways to get around the city. The bicycle parking is almost nonexistent, only in some parks, leisure together again displayed some.
all know that both Santa Cruz and La Laguna, has revamped its streets and the pedestrian streets returned to the city center, after decades taken by road traffic and where people have dealt with only the meager sidewalks, the city is recovering for people and goes humanizing. Last year, incomprehensible and contrary to what happens in all European cities, the City of La Laguna decided to prohibit travel on the new bike pedestrian streets with a penalty after the mobilization of many citizens, he relented and in March this year authorized distribution and regulated by bike (to read the excerpt from the new ordinance see here), this black period discs are still forbidden to travel on some streets. I do not know if the City of Santa Cruz has an ordinance so specific. At present it is possible to move through much of downtown SC and La Laguna through the pedestrian streets, but with the necessary care and always giving preference to pedestrians. It is also possible circular course on the road bike as stipulated and Traffic Law Rules of the road, because we must not forget that the bike is for all legal purposes a vehicle over, their rights and obligations, and the urban cyclist can travel "legally" by the Rambla Pulido or the Avenue Trinidad. In urban traffic is not mandatory for use or a reflective vest or helmet, as stated in the Nomatica force, and has to move around the center of the lane for safety, not the edge of the lane.
Among the little streets and pedestrian traffic can move in a manner acceptable to La Laguna and Santa Cruz, but with gaps in their own security, by the density of traffic we endure. The council announced last month June, the beginning of a change in this situation and draft-Tenerife Moveonbike (see news here.) At the moment we have also the tram to climb those slopes impossible for the urban cyclist, remember to always have to tie the bikes in the same belt enabled the wagons 2 and 4 and do not hesitate to call the space reserved for bicycles if it is occupied by people without disabled, since you are on your right and your obligation.
hope that everything is becoming simpler and although we do not reach the levels of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Amsterdam, we come to cities like Barcelona or Seville, regarding the national level.
all know that both Santa Cruz and La Laguna, has revamped its streets and the pedestrian streets returned to the city center, after decades taken by road traffic and where people have dealt with only the meager sidewalks, the city is recovering for people and goes humanizing. Last year, incomprehensible and contrary to what happens in all European cities, the City of La Laguna decided to prohibit travel on the new bike pedestrian streets with a penalty after the mobilization of many citizens, he relented and in March this year authorized distribution and regulated by bike (to read the excerpt from the new ordinance see here), this black period discs are still forbidden to travel on some streets. I do not know if the City of Santa Cruz has an ordinance so specific. At present it is possible to move through much of downtown SC and La Laguna through the pedestrian streets, but with the necessary care and always giving preference to pedestrians. It is also possible circular course on the road bike as stipulated and Traffic Law Rules of the road, because we must not forget that the bike is for all legal purposes a vehicle over, their rights and obligations, and the urban cyclist can travel "legally" by the Rambla Pulido or the Avenue Trinidad. In urban traffic is not mandatory for use or a reflective vest or helmet, as stated in the Nomatica force, and has to move around the center of the lane for safety, not the edge of the lane.
Among the little streets and pedestrian traffic can move in a manner acceptable to La Laguna and Santa Cruz, but with gaps in their own security, by the density of traffic we endure. The council announced last month June, the beginning of a change in this situation and draft-Tenerife Moveonbike (see news here.) At the moment we have also the tram to climb those slopes impossible for the urban cyclist, remember to always have to tie the bikes in the same belt enabled the wagons 2 and 4 and do not hesitate to call the space reserved for bicycles if it is occupied by people without disabled, since you are on your right and your obligation.
hope that everything is becoming simpler and although we do not reach the levels of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Amsterdam, we come to cities like Barcelona or Seville, regarding the national level.
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