Wednesday, October 24, 2012

biking in switzerland

I once had a dream to visit the land of the most amazing mountains and presumably the land of perfectionism - Switzerland. Recently I fulfilled the dream visiting a one not less amazing girl who lives in Bern.  Except for the mountains what really astonished me though were the developments in the road infrastructure for bikers.
Among some of them were:
 




-bike lanes so wide that TWO BIKERS can bike parallel to each other.






- TWO TRACKS separating bikers turning right or going straight on traffic lights.







- bikers wait not next to, but IN FRONT OF cars on traffic lights,




- one can borrow a bike FOR FREE ( GRATIS ) for  some amount of time