Car and bike touring club ANWB to rate bike paths for safety
The Dutch touring club ANWB is to begin awarding star ratings to 1,100 km of bike paths over the next six months in an effort to improve safety, the organisation said in a statement.
The ANWB said that more than 12,000 people are seriously injured in accidents along bike paths every year. About half of these are caused by the conditions along the path. Poles, curbs and tram rails can make bicycling less safe.
ANWB terms its ratings system CycleRAP and it will provide information about hazards which could cause serious accidents. Roads and bike paths will be rated from one to five stars, the latter being the safest. The ratings system will also be used to encourage provincial and local authorities to use road safety funds more effectively.
The first CycleRap ratings will appear in Friesland, Groningen, Drente, Flevoland provinces. The areas around Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague will follow, the ANWB said.
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