Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 27th February 2014

This week's photo shows something that the UK's planners so often get wrong, but which needn't be an issue if planned properly. We're talking about tram tracks.

Ask anyone in Edinburgh about trams, and they probably won't give you a happy answer, especially if they use a bike.

But tram tracks needn't be a problem for cycling, as shown in the photo above. The trick is to make the cycle route cross them as close to 90º as possible (cycle routes certainly shouldn't run along the gutter of the tram track, that's for sure).

Junction of Sarphatistraat and Alexanderplein, Amsterdam.