>>1709985>There are people lobbying against it, and I'm afraid that if theythe Independents are the only real opposition and they stand little chance in Reykjavík municipal elections
>>1710166>Wouldn't Reykjavik be a good city for cycling?Reykavík is dark and icy in winter with salted roads, windy and stormy all year round and very hilly
in addition most of the city outside the historic downtown was built post ww2 and follows a very typical postwar car centric design
the saving grace is the sheer size of the city as the Reykjavík capital area is only about 200k people so distances are manageable almost wherever you are
the cycling infrastructure is unremarkable but rapidly improving as the current liberal city council is very pro-cycling
the bike paths have multiplied in length in just a few years
I do bike to work every day about 7km each way and of those about 2km are on road, 0.5km on sidewalks (legal in Iceland) and 4.5km on bike paths/mixed use pathways
I meet multiple cyclists and escooterists every day on those paths, except when we had a bad storm earlier this week I had them all to myself
to sum up, could be better, could be worse
pic related, a very recent dedicated bike path close to the downtown harbor area
