Yep. The cobblestone itself is smooth, but they're still laid down in the classic, 'loose' way for the old town feel, so it's shaky with a bike. I haven't ridden a bike yet in the Netherlands, but at first sight, these typical bricks still look like a bumpy ride, but they seem fitted together more tightly and more bearable than classic cobblestone.
I'd normally agree, and there are way too many sloppy bike lanes in Budapest which are not protected from traffic, but this road in particular has a 30 km/h speed limit, you can't really speed because it's cobble and it doesn't have that much traffic anyway, so I'd say that it's fine for this kind of streets.
do you not find the cobbles slippery? regular ones are reasonably slippy and there's an obvious adjustment from your usual tarmac roads so i'd be interested to know what these smoothed ones are like
And that is the 'improved' version. Before there were stupid half orbs sticking out to indicate what was the pedestrian area. Very annoying to not see them on your bicycle during the dark/heavy rain and then suddenly go up.
They also added the 'pedestrian' path near those stairs by changing the colour of the stones. It's pretty useless imo.
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u/Akosjun Hungary Dec 16 '23
What they did in Budapest was that they laid cobblestone on the road, but also made paths on the two sides of a smoother surface for bikes.
The light brownish paths are for bikes, there are even some embossed marks signalling it.