For I being an enthusiast in riding a bike, I ride my bike from home to han-river park in Yeouido from time to time. Everytime I ride there via Daebang station, I have to get off my bike and carry it for many times. It isn't good to have no appropriate Bicycle Lanes. Definitely it is not good for bicycle riders, nor pedestrians.
Even when there are bicycle lanes on road, quite often it is hard to ride on them easily (they are usually blocked by street vendors, taxies, or other unpredictable things). It is not hard to hear voices of the discontented on korean websites.
When we face problems, we gotta find the causes and solve them. It doesn't seem simple as it sounds, though―especially when it comes to the vehicles(buses, taxies, and other automobiles). Actually, the bicycle lane and bus, taxi station near National Assembly in Yeouido overlaps (or just right next to each other).
Fundamentally, road system should change or we should bring up the ingenious solution appropriate to Korea to organize ideal, came-out-as-intended bicycle lanes. There's no sufficient parking space, for example, in Korea especially in Seoul. When we consider the bicycle lanes are right next to pavements in Korea, it is often inevitable to run into parked cars along the road riding a bike on the bicycle lanes.
There are some solutions coming up for this problem, which is not fundamental, enough(like IOS App about bicycle lanes, riding bikes on the road). If we really want to solve the problem about bicycle lanes, we have to approach the root cause not making more bicycle lanes without any solution. If we consider the road system of Korea, it is clear that we shouln't be just copying other Europian bicycle lanes. We have to come up with creative idea, which seems not available right now.
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