Originally Posted by acidfast7

Most people don't commute to work on a "road" per se. They use specialized bike paths. If they live in an urban area of moderate size (100k people and up) then most inner city area will have separated bike lanes until the outskirts are the city. Then you get the US-style lane. But, when you're that far out of the city, there are number bike-only options.

Here's an inner city Frankfurt bike lane


but as you get 5km from city center it's more like this ... this video is good because it starts at the train station and heads out of town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiteaW_mcRs