OSLO, NORWAY — Norway has invested in the development of a network of highways for cyclists.
The country has announced that it will spend 8 billion Norwegian Kroner (US$923 million) on 10 broad, two-lane, cross-country bike tracks in and near Norway’s nine largest cities. The highway will allow longer-distance cyclists to travel with a speed and safety hitherto impossible.
The new paths will create bike commuter links between inner cities and outer suburbs. It will extend the protected cycle network out from urban cores through the commuter belt and into the countryside.
The highway will not be tracks linking cities across hundreds of miles, at least not initially.
In the absence of cars, the highway will allow cyclists to travel up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) per hour, making long-distance travel more realistic.
The bike highway is part of the new National Transit Plan to clean up Norway’s transit pollution. According to the plan, by 2030, 75 percent of the country’s buses and 50 percent of its trucks must be low-emission, while 40 percent of its short-distance ships and ferries (an important means of transit in Norway) must be either low emission or use biofuels.
If the bike highway succeeds, it should take pressure off roads and public transit and help cut Norway’s usage of fossil fuels.
Norway’s vision doesn’t stand alone. In 2014, an elevated bike path was proposed for London by design firm Norman Foster. The futuristic cycle highway was designed as 220 km of car-free routes installed above London’s suburban rail network and would accommodate 12,000 cyclists per hour. And Netherlands famous suspended bike path, the Hovenring, conceived in 2008, has become a landmark. The cycle path roundabout in the province of North Brabant is the first of its kind in the world.
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more way to invest almost a billion dollars on bicycle highways Norway’s latest multi-million dollar bicycle highway project will create a bike commuter links between the outer suburbs and inner city the bike highway is part of the new national transit plan to clean up Norway’s transit pollution it calls for ten broad two-lane cross-country bike tracks in and near Norway’s nine largest cities in the absence of cars the highway will allow cyclists to travel up to 40 kilometres per hour making long-distance travel more realistic officials hope the new lanes will provide a safer and quicker means of travel take pressure off roads and public transit and help decrease Norway’s use of fossil fuels initially instead of building highways that will link cities across hundreds of miles the protected cycle network will extend out from urban cores to the commuter belt and into the countryside
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With Oil Money, anything is possible.
u would think they would do this to a city with mostly sunny & mild temps
Lol another way to waste tax payers money. To appease a minority of the population.
pokemon did it already
cool idea
Go Norway! That seems like a brilliant idea. Though I living in the US, my first thought was, how long until a car tries to use it to get around traffic?
Countries around the world should do the same thing. For the people and the environment.
Slowly but surely the world is becoming reminiscent of the old Pokémon games.
norway is so dumb just make bike lanes that will cost less money
what if there was a serious injury. How would an ambulance get around. Before someone says a medic coming around in a bicycle, how will they transport the person if he is that seriously injured?
Gonna suck though during the fall and winter months
That's really fucking cool
cough cough pokemon oras
whre in norway is this? i really want to see it!
What, im Norwegian and i have NOT heard of this…
I can't ride a bike that fast or up hills.
How much will deicing that cost in the winter. Are people gonna be biking in negative weather?
this is really cool, they need to make it like the sky walks in Minneapolis, they are like glass tunnels above ground between buildings.
That would work well in Norway, not so well here in the USA, there are too many mindless clueless idiots on the roads who are to stupid to read street signs and are busy reading their text and emails while driving.
Reminds me of Pokemon
Cheak out my channal
I've dreamed of this. Amazing the government actually approved and will do it in Norway. Really says a lot about what they value. I wonder how this could be done in U.S. and how to get such an idea through government.
idiots, isn't Norway generally cold and snowy?
I live here, its a farse!! Its the newly elected political party in oslo(crazies) bomb of a project.Halfway thought. The weather, as many have mentioned makes this just usable during weekends in the summermonths. Who wants to bicycle when its raining cats and dogs?!? Not to mention the snowy winter. The cost efficiency is just deplorable. Get real( not gonna happen, not with luggage anyway. And the existing bicycle lanes arent even of the same standard as those you find in the netherlands/holland and flandern.They really know what theyre doing.
they should make an electric bike
This looks cool. I can't wait to visit Norway! It's at the top of my list of places I must travel to.
We need this in california! Its ridiculous all these people and cars!
Im confused is supposed stretch out all across the country?
0:15 That entryway is too narrow and especially steep. Hopefully this isn't part of the final design nearly 4 years later
34 going to save up then move to norway . Im done with the states .
24.85 mph