Route for kamikaze? Atrocity? Prague also made cycle lanes at the motorway exit
Jeremiášova Street in Stodůlky usually drives cars at speeds higher than 70 km / h. The Rozvadovská junction is terminated by the Pilsen motorway, and according to traffic intensity measurements, tens of thousands of cars pass through Bucharová every day.
It was in these places that the employees of the Technical Communications Administration (TSK) municipality drew new cycle lanes. But it was as if the red signage with a picture on the bike seemed to a lot of people like a red hard on a bull. power is raging on social networks, others are tapping their foreheads in disbelief. Many comments threaten the health of road users. In addition, the two mentioned places near the Prague ring road are to be continued by bicycle lanes, while a dedicated box for stopping cyclists is planned at all traffic lights. He pointed out the “traffic coloring pages” web D-fens, the topic was subsequently caught by other media.
“Personally, I often cycle in the area of the Southwest City. And the section of Bucharova Street affected by the measures can be comfortably bypassed on quieter lower meanings (eg Pekařská Street or the housing estate cycle route ‘A’, in fact most of the Southwest City is safely accessible by bike without the use of higher order roads). The cyclist thus avoids and, if necessary, overcomes them with the help of footbridges, underpasses or light-controlled intersections, “writes an anonymous author, who describes this step of the municipality as” embarrassment “.
One of the Facebook users drove through the incriminated place by car (because he did not dare to ride a bike), took a few pictures and made short videos. He used the term “master worthy of an inmate from Bohnice” in the commentary. Critics alike point out the dangers for cyclists and the threats to the flow of traffic. Already at the end of the Rozvadovská spojka, columns are regularly formed at peak times.
Bike path on Plzeňská street? Suicide attempt!
Cyclists will now find themselves on a hill between the lane of cars driving along Bucharova Street towards Plzeňská and the connecting lane from Rozvadovská spojka, so cars heading from the D5 motorway must give priority to bicycles. At the Šafránkova bus stop, however, the cycle lanes end and the descent towards the Motol hospital, where increased speed is allowed, allows cyclists to get into a frantic drive between cars. Then they can join the route leading to Smíchov.
However, at the time when the municipality ruled the YES movement with the CSSD and the Trojal Coalition (Green Party, STAN, KDU-ČSL), the Horydoly.cz website described this section as a “route for kamikaze” and called the video an attempted suicide: “A cyclist or scooter will experience on a five-kilometer large portion of undiluted horror, if they believe the bicycle signs on Plzeňská Street in Prague. “
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Last autumn, the Transport Committee of Prague 13 also issued a dissenting opinion with the solution in Bucharova Street. only after the completion of the Radlická Radials. ”Mayor David Vodrážka (ODS) was to discuss this problem with the City Hall.
The proposal for additional changes on Bucharova Street was posted on the official notice board of the Prague City Hall from 19 May to Wednesday 3 June and was available for inspection under reference number PKD-72008/2020. Citizens could send comments on it, but the leadership of the metropolis does not have to take into account.
We could also hear the heated debate at the cycle lanes in Modřanská, Evropská or Jeremiášova Street. Jakub Stárek (ODS), the mayor of Prague 6, also spoke, according to which the new traffic signs on a busy road at the mouth of the D5 motorway are “another in a series of crimes against traffic flow and common sense”.
Čižinský transport terror
Cycle lanes in the streets of Prague 7 have long been criticized, where some of them, in mocking allusion to the mayor Jan Čižinský and the leader of the coalition entity Prague, refer to themselves as “Čižinský traffic terror”. The cycle lane on Štefánik Bridge, which ends 100 meters in front of the crossroads, looks funny. Also around the Vltavská metro station or on the Hlávka bridge over Štvanice, green columns and horizontal markings arouse embarrassment even among cyclists themselves.
Association Automatic however, he defends the cycle lanes: “Along each main street, which according to some is unsuitable for bicycle lanes, a long and comfortable cycle path should have run for a long time. However, when better protected measures cannot be taken quickly, cycle lanes are a temporary emergency replacement. “
As Stárek, Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Prague himself) Marek Bělor pointed out, who proposed a controversial solution on the western edge of the capital, is connected with this activist association. AutoMat lists it on the web among authors. According to information from Pražský deník, however, the influence of the association on the management of the metropolis is minimal.
Scheinherr told the editors that since the beginning of the mandate he has complied with the resolution of the city council from 2003 to 2016, when TSK is obliged to examine the possibility of integrating cycling measures. The current councilor for transport has given the municipality a municipal recommendation that he set up cycle lanes only where this does not limit car traffic. “There was no reduction of lanes here, so there were several decisions,” Scheinr said of Bucharov’s case, adding that the drawing of the cycle lanes preceded the council and the designer followed them.