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This can be considered the end of a certain era: in Vilnius, the painted bicycle lanes on the sidewalks disappear. Although you can still find white-painted lines and bicycle symbols somewhere in the city, these are just the last few fragments that will disappear in the near future when more complex street infrastructure problems are solved.
“The old ‘bike lanes’ – sidewalk lanes – not only created the conditions for unnecessary conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, but they certainly did not meet current quality standards for bicycle infrastructure. Narrow sidewalks were divided by the half, so there was not enough space for pedestrians or cyclists. From now on, the sidewalks will return to pedestrians, who will no longer have to worry about cyclists maneuvering nearby, “said the Vilnius city municipality in a release.
Plush workers erased more than 15 km of markings throughout the month.
“We remind you that it is still possible to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, either in general traffic with pedestrians or, depending on the category of the street and the load, with the roadway along with the cars,” recalls the municipality. .
“For our part, we will continue to strive not to reduce momentum by building new cycle paths that meet high-quality standards and will connect to a single, uninterrupted network by 2023.” The old “drawn” roads, where there will be no possibility of building a new red asphalt road, will be replaced by silent traffic zones, “reads the report from the Vilnius City Municipality.
