Originally Posted by
climbhoser
Denver is amazing. MUPs everywhere, called greenbelts. They run through every neighborhood.
I commute to work 15 miles, 5 of which are on road, the rest on MUPs. When on the MUPs I NEVER cross a road. Eventually 3 miles of road will be cut out and the MUP will connect in the middle, but for now I have to take a connection via road.
It's super well maintained, and I can take the MUp all the way from the s.e suburbs to downtown. Pretty cool, and the bike lanes are really awersome, though not widespread enough for my liking.
Lots of people on bikes, many dedicated roadies and MTB'ers and lots of commuters.
The MUPs there sound a lot like what I found in Oulu Finland... it was an incredible system really devoted to moving people around on paths. Great bridges, good shortcuts and lots of below road grade MUPs... MUPs that went under intersections so that you never slowed down. The infrastructure was complete too, you could go everywhere by bike... even some places you couldn't go by car. The center of town was closed to autos. Autos had to take somewhat circuitous routes to get to places you could go directly by bike. These were wide MUPs too... 8-9 feet easily. Now if it just wasn't so freakin' cold there...
