Bicycle path

This Fietspad or Bicycle Path in the Netherlands safely links housing.

A bicycle path is a way marked for people on bicycles to use. Bike paths became increasingly popular as more people took on the recreational sport of cycling. Some bike paths are unpaved for mountain bikes and gravel bikes, and others are paved.

Many bicycle path networks can be found in countries such as Denmark or Netherlands, which has had a national system of cycle routes since 1993. These networks may use routes dedicated exclusively to cycle traffic or minor rural roads whose use is otherwise restricted to local motor traffic and agricultural machinery. A bicycle path offers a safe way to go on a bicycle. Where bicycle safety is given consideration, you do not have to cycle in busy traffic on dangerous roads.

The Dutch word Fietspad means Bicycle Path in English. In the Netherlands, the bicycle path offers a direct way to shops, housing, stations, schools, and workplaces. They are based on efforts to increase Utility cycling. In countries like Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany the high levels of utility cycling also includes shopping trips e.g. 9% of all shopping trips in Germany are by bicycle.