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Originally Posted by mpd8488
Bike riders are incredibly rude around here and do not obey traffic laws or give pedestrians the right of way. It is one thing to have a car cut you off while driving. At worst you may rear end them and do some damage, but if a bike rider cuts you off and you can't swerve or stop you are going to seriously injure them.
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You have never been to the Netherlands, right? Bike riders are there everywhere. As pedestrian you simply have to take constantly care of yourself.
Its still superb biking system in the Netherlands. They have even real bike "streets". Looking like real streets but smaller and exclusively for bikes and very light motorized 2 wheelers. And they have the bike traffic that those roads make sense.
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What about restricting vehicles during certain times of day? Allow commercial vehicles and employees to get to their business places in the morning, but close down the streets once the tourists arrive in full force.
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Thats the way it is also handled in most pedestrian zones already today. But thats for delivery only. And thats also logical, I mean what kind of pedestrian zone that would be if it would be clocked by the dozens of cars of the employees? No thats not a reasonable way, of course pedestrian Zone means, no car parking.