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A bike path is a bikeway separated from motorized traffic and dedicated to cycling or shared with pedestrians or other non-motorized users. In the US a bike path sometimes encompasses ''shared use paths'', "multi-use path", or "Class III bikeway" is a paved path that has been designated for use by cyclists outside of the right of way of a public road. It may or may not have a center divider or stripe to prevent head-on collisions. In the UK, a ''shared-use footway'' or ''multi-use path'' is for use by both cyclists and pedestrians. == Bike paths with independent rights-of-way== Bike paths that follow independent rights-of-way are often used to promote recreational cycling. In Northern European countries, cycling tourism represents a significant proportion of overall tourist activity. Extensive interurban bike path networks can be found in countries such as Denmark or the Netherlands, which has had a national system of cycle routes since 1993. These networks may use routes dedicated exclusively to cycle traffic or minor rural roads whose use is otherwise restricted to local motor traffic and agricultural machinery. The UK has recently implemented the National Cycle Network. Where available these routes are often rail trails making use of abandoned railway corridors. A prominent example in the UK is the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, a bike path that is part of National Cycle Route 4. Other UK examples include The Ebury Way Cycle Path, The Alban Way, the Hillend Loch Railway Path and the Nicky Line. In 2003 the longest continuous bike path in Europe was opened, along the Albacete-Valdeganga highway in Spain, a distance of .〔http://web.archive.org/web/20030426164749/http://www.lacerca.com/local%202003/pagina(11-04-03)-6.htm〕 Bogota's Bike Paths Network (''Ciclorutas de Bogotá'' in Spanish), designed and built during the administration of Mayor Enrique Peñalosa attracts significant recreational use. The relative safety of bike paths that follow independent rights-of-way closed to motorized traffic is difficult to assess. In terms of car/bicycle collisions, this is clearly mediated by how the bike path network rejoins the main road network. In the English town of Milton Keynes, a study showed that cyclists using the off-road Milton Keynes redway system had on a per-journey basis a significantly higher rate of fatal car-bicycle collisions at path/roadway crossings than cyclists on ordinary roads.〔(Two decades of the Redway cycle paths of Milton Keynes ), J. Franklin (Cycling Skills and Safety Consultant), Traffic Engineering and Control, pp. 393–396, July/August 1999〕 The consequences of other risks — falls, cyclist–cyclist collisions and cyclist–pedestrian collisions — are frequently not recorded in official accident figures and may be available only via local hospital surveys. As a general rule those bike paths with the highest perceived safety tend to be those engineered on the assumption of vehicular rather than pedestrian traffic. Thus the most popular examples tend to be converted road or railway alignments or constructed to the same standards used by road and railway engineers. File:Mosel maare cycleroute.jpg|Rail trail on a converted railway corridor between Daun and Wittlich, Eifel, Germany File:Millcreektrail1.jpg|The first completed stretch of a planned recreational loop around Louisville, Kentucky, USA File:Fomer Bradwell Halt, July 2009.JPG|Part of the Milton Keynes redway system runs along the disused track bed of the former Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line. File:California Cycleway 1900.jpg|California Cycleway in 1900 File:Gonzaga_ciclovia.jpg|Bicycle path in Santos, Brazil File:Ciclovia Povoa Varzim.jpg|Bicycle path in Portugal File:Ciclovía Pocuro.JPG|Bicycle path in Pocuro, Chile File:Calçadão e ciclovia da Praia de Boa Viagem - Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.jpg|Bicycle path in Recife, Brazil File:Parque_El_Ejido_Quito_Ecuador.JPG|Bicycle path in Ejido Park Quito, Ecuador File:B050702-35e.jpg|Trans Canada Trail along Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver, Canada File:Midtown_Greenway, Minneapolis.jpg|The Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis, USA. File:Chicago's lakefront Bicycle Path 02.jpg|Chicago's lakefront bicycle path, USA File:Chagny-canal-centre-01.jpg|In France, the towpaths of several canals have been converted into bikeways, here the Canal du Centre near Chagny File:647c Salzburg Ufer.jpg|Riverside foot- and cycleway in Salzburg, Austria, seen from a junction with a foot-and-bike-bridge File:3112 - Schaan-Vaduz - Rheindamm.JPG|The dikes of the Alpine Rhine are comfortable cycleways, here in Liechtenstein File:1007HB Beneckendorff Parkpl.jpg|Cycleroute in the alignment of a cancelled road project in Bremen, Germany File:HRGW under Miller Hwy jeh.jpg|Separated by running underneath the motorway File:A Ciclovia Rio Pinheiros.jpg|A bikepath in Rio Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil File:Bogotá calle 92 con carrera 15 El Chicó..JPG|A bikepath in El Chicó in Bogotá, Colombia File:Red de Ciclovías 02.jpg|Bikeway in Buenos Aires File:Viale Spartaco Lavagnini (Firenze) 17.JPG|Bicycle path in Florence File:I-205 Bike Path.JPG|Interstate 205 bike path between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bike path」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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