Comments on: Cycling in Zürich: An uphill challenge https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2015/08/09/cycling-in-zurich-an-uphill-challenge/ Regular people riding bicycles Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:34:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: emilymlane https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2015/08/09/cycling-in-zurich-an-uphill-challenge/#comment-1339 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:28:33 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=7745#comment-1339 We lived in Rafz (about 30 km N of Zurich) for 6 months a couple of years ago. Many a pleasant evening (we had babysitting at night) was spent on our tandem exploring the amazing network of veloweg (cycleways) around our village, which were always well signposted. On one particularly memorable occasion we cycled in to Zurich for a romantic dinner and got horrendously lost because, within Zurich, the veloweg only posted the next suburb – not the ‘big picture’ direction you were headed. The locals we stopped to ask had no more idea than us which way to go and were bemused to think we were even attempting it. An adventure later, we did eventually find our way in – mainly by piecing together the suburbs we remembered the train (our usual method to get into town) stopping off in. After a lovely meal (and well lubricated) we made ample use of Polaris – the north star – in our attempts to find out way back out of Zurich!

]]> By: Peter H https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2015/08/09/cycling-in-zurich-an-uphill-challenge/#comment-1338 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:22:20 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=7745#comment-1338 Out of the half a dozen countries I have driven in. For me the Swiss road marking have been the easiest to read. They don’t seem to overuse paint or it maybe the disciplined way they use the three colours (White for motor vehicles, Yellow for Pedestrians / cyclist and magenta for temp/road works) seems to explain the road in way I’ve not seen in other countries.

Your sixth photo is a good example of what I remember. Yellow line across driveway indicates your crossing foot path. Road doesn’t look to need lots of red surfacing (green in NZ) across intersection.

]]> By: goosoid https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2015/08/09/cycling-in-zurich-an-uphill-challenge/#comment-1337 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 06:17:31 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=7745#comment-1337 Yes by northern European standards 5% is not great – though I imagine that is higher than Zurich’s French cousin Geneva. German speakers are much more enthusiastic cyclists than FFrancophones.

However, NZ has a hilly city of 1.5m that would love to have that “low” mode share. That would mean a doubling of Auckland’s cycling. Let’s hope we see that one day.

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