Tel Aviv has many narrow streets that are difficult to navigate, regardless of whether you're in a car, on foot, or cycling. But there are also beautiful tree-lined boulevards, and they have taken advantage of the middle strips for walking and biking paths, as you can see here. I took this standing in the walking path, and you can see by the paint where the bicycles belong.
Of course, many of these paths do not connect well.
And there are many sidewalks that don't have room for cyclists. But the crazy drivers endanger the cyclists on the streets, so the cyclists ride on sidewalks where they endanger the pedestrians. And the pedestrians endanger the cats, and the cats endanger the rats, and so it goes.
Dan has hooked up with a bike club here (thanks to a
http://www.meetup.com/ group that I found online) that goes on night rides between 9pm-midnight, when the streets quiet down a little. Living in a city requires a bit of creativity and persistence with shared resources. Well, living anywhere does, if you take a
systems thinking point of view.
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