Bike commute

Here's a little video I made of my bike ride to school. It's pretty shaky due to a lazy mount on the front of my bicycle, but hopefully gives a little picture of what cycling here is like.

You do have to be aware, but you also don't really have to interact with cars - which makes a HUGE difference! The risk of being hit my a moving car is almost eliminated. To turn left you do a "danish left" where you go straight through the intersection, stop at the other side, swivel around 90 degrees, and wait for the next light. I love it. Another great thing for safety is no free turns on right here - for anyone! And I think my favorite thing is that both cars and bicycles get a yellow light before the light turns green - how practical! That way if say you are going straight and cars in the lane to your left are turning right, you are probably already through the intersection before they turn. Drivers generally seem to be very aware here. One thing that is not nice is that mopeds are allowed on the bicycle tracks! They come racing by these narrow lanes, which is not ideal, but also doesn't happen much.