Hardly any distance to the cars: Many bike paths in German cities, like here in Dresden, are too narrow according to ADAC. Photo: Robert Michael / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa. (Source: dpa)
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Munich – The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) criticizes bike paths that are too narrow in German cities.
Around every third cycle path (36 percent) does not even meet the respective minimum width, said the ADAC, citing a current sample of 120 routes in ten cities. “Only every fifth cycle path reached or exceeded the standard widths.”
In the five provincial capitals with the highest and the five provincial capitals with the lowest proportion of bicycles in traffic, the auto club checked whether the existing cycle paths could cope with the ever-increasing rush. As a benchmark, the Munich team used the current recommendations, according to which, for example, a cycle path that can only be used in one direction should be at least 1.60 meters wide, but as a rule two meters wide.
Only Kiel achieved a good overall rating in the test; not a single route failed there. Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt, Munich, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Wiesbaden received a “sufficient”. Hanover and Mainz received a “poor” acknowledgment. In the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital, the examiners rated 70 percent of the routes as poor or very poor.
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