{"id":187312,"date":"2021-11-16T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=187312"},"modified":"2021-11-16T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T07:05:58","slug":"top-10-worst-cycle-lanes-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/11\/16\/top-10-worst-cycle-lanes-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Worst Cycle Lanes in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not long ago, we staked out a bold new goal for We Love Cycling magazine: to collect as many of the worst cycle lanes across the globe as we could and gather them in the biggest gallery of its kind. And thus, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/worst-cycle-lane\/\">Worst Cycle Lane in the World Gallery<\/a> was born! It\u2019s been driven purely by user submissions. Here\u2019s our selection of the \u2018best\u2019 entries from Spain!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The past two years spent in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic seem to have acted as a catalyst for various cycling-related improvements. The Spanish capital is now reaping the benefits of a novelty system of transportation planning called <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2020\/08\/11\/is-it-time-for-the-u-s-to-try-the-madrid-model-of-vehicular-cycling-infrastructure\/\">\u2018The Madrid Model\u2019<\/a> that has been implemented since 2013. Also, in the summer of 2021, the Spanish government has approved the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.com\/news-and-events\/news\/spain-approves-its-first-ever-national-cycling-strategy\">national cycling strategy<\/a> with an allotted budget of five million euros, dedicated solely to improving cycling infrastructure. We hope at least some of the best submissions in the gallery will benefit from these initiatives.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. Bumpy lane<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_187314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187314\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/11\/Arrow_cycle-lane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-187314\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/11\/Arrow_cycle-lane.jpg\" alt=\"Spain cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>2. Pretty<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Chicane_61252559c6571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185725\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Chicane_61252559c6571.jpg\" alt=\"Valencia cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>3. Now what?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/IruC3B1a2FPamplona_6118b80cbcd08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185367 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/IruC3B1a2FPamplona_6118b80cbcd08.jpg\" alt=\"Pamplona cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>And that&#8217;s a wrap<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185367\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/11\/Coyote-cycle-lane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187353\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/11\/Coyote-cycle-lane.jpg\" alt=\"Logro\u00f1o cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamplona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Please, park here<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185887\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Bidegorrianingunaparte_6129c481b1d56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185887\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Bidegorrianingunaparte_6129c481b1d56.jpg\" alt=\"Bilbao cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bilbao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Nice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185969\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Orihuela_612d05542dd97.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185969\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Orihuela_612d05542dd97.jpg\" alt=\"Orihuela cycle lane\" width=\"695\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orihuela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, we staked out a bold new goal for We Love Cycling magazine: to collect as many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":187461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[5613,1747,5847],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-187312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-cycling","tag-worst-cycle-lane-in-the-world","tag-worst-cycle-lanes","tag-worst-cycle-lanes-in-spain","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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