Mapped: How hard it is to get across U.S. cities using only bike lanes - The Washington Post

Bike lanes, sharrows and off-road trails.

Mapped: How hard it is to get across U.S. cities using only bike lanes - The Washington Post:

That map has more connections, but the larger pattern remains: This network is disjointed and incomplete. We'd never build a street grid that looks like this and expect drivers to navigate the city through it. But this is the reality for cyclists, and it may help explain to other people why cyclists have such a hard time staying out of the way — off the shoulder, off the sidewalk, out of traffic or car lanes. It's quite literally not possible to travel between many points in the city using only cycling infrastructure.