3 MORE Developments in Bicycle Tourism

Boston Minuteman Bikeway

Photo: bluebike

Our last report enclosed guided rides, bike-hire schemes, as well as resourceful civic routes. Find out whats going upon in bicycle transport now.
Google Maps for Bikes

This past March, the brand new Google Maps bicycle underline was finally announced. It can be accessed inside of the More territory during the tip right of the page, or by clicking the bicycle icon in the Get Directions menu.

Turn it upon as well as boom, your map becomes the spaghetti bowl of immature lines. you noticed right off which there were three degrees of these lines, explained by the Official Google Blog thusly:

* Dark immature indicates the dedicated bike-only trail;
* Light immature indicates the dedicated bike line along the road;
* Dashed immature indicates roads which have been designated as preferred for bicycling, though without dedicated lanes.

I used the underline to get directions from my house to the farmers marketplace ~3 miles away. Supposedly, Maps crunches the complex set of variables, including hills as well as intersection busy-ness, to determine the best route.

This did crop up to be the box with my directions you got the single route for the way there which took me down the large towering upon Airport, then the different the single upon the way back to avoid it. Neither of these was my privately preferred route (why pass up the dedicated bike path by the nearby play ground only because its the little longer?), though you was able to draw towards as well as dump the line wherever you wanted.

Google Maps Biking screenshot

Google Maps Biking is currently upon line in 150 U.S. cities, plus 12,000 miles of trails, like those in the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Will you see intern! ational editions in the future? Hope so.

Cycling No Mans Land

Jaunted.com has headlines which South Korea is considering turning part of the DMZ the two-mile-wide demilitarized section which cuts opposite the peninsula during the 38th parallel in to the towering bike trail for traveller use.

Propaganda poster, Korean DMZ

Photo: yeowatzup

Sounds weird, though there have been already hundreds of people which revisit the DMZ daily. you took the debate when you was there in 2006. It enclosed the surveillance mark where you could check out the northern city of Kaesong by those pay-per-view binoculars, as well as the trip subterraneous to the single of the infiltration tunnels the North dug to move in advance forces.

So may be waeguks upon bikes isnt such the stretch. But you rsther than prefer an pick predestine for the DMZ nature park. Already, the skinny frame of totally uninhabited land is home to most involved endemic species.

Also, you dont want to get shot.

Best Urban Bike Paths

Not so most the development as the handy list, as well as possibly the reason to revisit 5 cities which you might not have considered before. Top Five Urban Bike Paths in the U.S. comes from Mens Journal:

  • Atlanta: Silver Comet Trail
  • Boston: Minuteman Bikeway
  • Chicago: Chicago Lakefront Bike Path
  • Northern Virginia/DC metro area: Mount Vernon Trail
  • Sacramento: Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail/American River Bike Path

Ive pedaled civic trails in Burlington, VT, Seoul, as well as Austin, TX, though never in any of the five cities above. So Ill have to leave it to readers to decider the validity of this list.

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