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Conference noted::bicycle

Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

1804.0. "The longest bridge" by IOSG::HUNTD (I DO believe in Concorde) Sun Dec 16 1990 09:08

    I put this note in CYCLE_RACING as well.
    
    I am trying to find the answer to a quiz question.
    
    Where is the longest cycle bridge in Western Europe?
    
    Paris
    Munich
    Cambridge
    
    I would be very glad if anyone could tell me!
    
    diana
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1804.1one candidateSHALOT::ELLISJohn Lee Ellis - assembly requiredSun Dec 16 1990 18:249
    
    Do you mean the longest bridge made expressly for cycles,
    or the longest bridge on which you can cycle?  (Probably 
    the former.)
    
    But if the latter, then the Afsluitdijk across the Ijsselmeer
    (formerly the Zuider Zee) is fairly long - about 30km, as I recall.
    
    -john
1804.2another trySHALOT::ELLISJohn Lee Ellis - assembly requiredSun Dec 16 1990 18:2911
    Oops, I just re-read your note, so clearly .1 is not the answer.
    But I'm leaving it in anyway to pique the imagination of what
    it's like to cycle 30km in a straight line with water on either
    sides, and seafowl careening overhead.
    
    I don't recall any special cycle-bridge in Munich, unless maybe
    on the north part of the Mittlerer Ring.  Well, that's lots of help.
    
    Good luck.
    
    -john
1804.3Exclude MunichEICMFG::BINGERTue Dec 18 1990 03:0913
>    Where is the longest cycle bridge in Western Europe?
>    
>    Paris
>    Munich
      I would exclude Munich..
>    Cambridge
      Now that england has joined western Europe. I would *guess* cambridge.
>    
>    I would be very glad if anyone could tell me!

      This is just a guess.
      Rgds,
      Stephen
1804.4MOVIES::WIDDOWSONTue Dec 18 1990 06:503
    But what *is* a cycle bridge ?  Cyclists only ? Pedestrians + cycles ?
    Cars + cycles ? cars + cycle lane ?
    
1804.5IOSG::HUNTDI DO believe in ConcordeTue Dec 18 1990 08:203
    I know! the question isn't very helpful is it.
    
    diana
1804.6MOVIES::WIDDOWSONTue Dec 18 1990 14:295
    For those of you waiting in suspense.
    
    TRUCKS::GREAT_BRITAIN  note 903.20 proposes cambridge as having a cycles
    only bridge over (if I remember rightly) some railway lines (==railroad
    tracks)
1804.7the answerIOSG::HUNTDI DO believe in ConcordeWed Dec 19 1990 08:1712
    I didnt manage to post this in time obviously!
    
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                       -< The Great Britain Conference >-
    It is in Cambridge. It was built about two years ago and won various 
    awards. It spans a whole load of railway tracks just by the station 
    and some roads and relieved a very congested road bridge of all the 
    wretched cyclists. Until you've driven or walked in Cambridge you 
    haven't lived, or met a bike.
    The trick is that this is purely a cycle bridge - no footpath or 
    road.