Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 27th April 2017

This week's Good Facility is a pair of bi-directional cycleways passing under a road and a railway line in the Dutch city of Assen.

The cycleways are bi-directional on each side of the road, allowing people to make journeys in the 'wrong' direction without having to negotiate the road - i.e. crossing and then crossing back again.

Because people walking and cycling don't require as much clearance as motor traffic, the cycleway and the footway do not 'dip' as much as the road in the middle of the underpass, meaning less effort is required to negotiate it. 

There is specific lighting for the cycleway, built into the lighting columns. 

(The width of the cycleway and footway is substandard - they have been retrofitted into a pre-existing underpass, built at a time when there was less consideration for walking and cycling!)