Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 30th April 2015

This week's Good Facility is another unglamorous but very useful piece of cycling infrastructure - a road in a semi-rural area in Switzerland on which general motor traffic is banned.

This road is only open to residents who live on it, and agricultural traffic (as well as people walking and cycling) - as the sign makes clear. This is a similar system to the one in place in the Netherlands, which we've covered in previous examples. 

These lanes are consequently very attractive to cycle on - largely free from motor traffic, which uses longer (but faster) parallel routes - and form useful connections between towns, villages and settlements across rural Switzerland.