They plow them too. Same city, different street, this week:

You a normal bicycle road in the Netherlands in every town. All equipped with own traffic signs and own traffic lights. Even with broader bicycle expressways cross country between towns.

It's frustrating how many comments are focused on comparisons to the NL. When someone does something hard that was easy for you, do you gloat or do you celebrate their efforts?

Everyone in this community knows that NL has amazing bike infra and this is normal (and better) there.

Hope to see more permanent protected bike lanes in the US. Thanks for sharing OP

I used to live in Somerville! Good town.

I also had my arm broken by a reckless driver hit and run on my bike there, so I'm happy to see bike infrastructure improving a bit.

In my country this is “standard” bike lane.

Beautiful, I just wish they hadn’t insisted on keeping the parallel parking and planted some trees instead.

I didn't know Americans had cycle lanes

i disagree. There are good and bad separate bike lanes.

In this one, cyclists will be overlooked a lot when crossing the lane. They are hidden behind parked cars.

edit: apologies in advance. I am glad you built this one, which is already a good step in the right direction.

I'm going to hit my head on that tree's branches

That automotive crossing in frame center is seriously bad vibes. The car parking immediately adjacent to the driveway - A driveway that presumably leads to more car parking - Means zero bike visibility for drivers turning right off the street. That's a near-guaranteed cyclist injury or death in the future, which becomes even more likely the smaller the cyclist is. None of the road signs seem to warn of the presence of the bike lane. And there's another car crossing 20 feet after that! Aesthetically this lane looks pleasing to the North American eye but I expect it wouldn't actually pass muster in a place like NL.

It's certainly a move in the right direction but I'd stop short of calling it "good" when it's not even safe.

I am jelly as heaven now!

Indeed and give the bicycles the right of way like the Netherlands. However, with proper traffic controls and the bicyclists must follow the rules too.

Bonus points if they raise the entry from the road to the parking lot to separate things further!

MAGA will ban it, and turn it into luxury vehicle parking.

This, fucking everywhere!

Ah man, I used to live in this town. I wish the infrastructure had been this good when I was there.

Oh man I wanna bike there so bad. How’s the bikeability from Somerville to Boston?