"You have to cycle surrounded by motor traffic!" marvels the videographer, Mark Wagenbuur. Even on his visit to America's bikingest city, Davis, Calif., he finds that using a bike to get around "seems like a chase."

See 2:34 through 3:41 for a discussion close to our own hearts: the difference between "useless paint" and a protected green lane — and keep watching from there for Wagenbuur's discussion of the spots even the best American green lanes often fail: intersections.

As Wagenbuur writes in the associated blog post, his vacation last month took him to Davis, Chicago, San Francisco and rural Nevada. Wagenbuur seems to have discovered, in reverse, why the Green Lane Project helps pay for American street designers and policymakers to visit Northern Europe: when it comes to modern bike innovations, seeing is believing. But it's nice to know that by the end of the trip he'd made a very sensible conclusion: "There could be a good future for cycling in the U.S." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

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