The Best in Bike Infrastructure

For the bike and transportation nerds - you know you're out there - a few impressive photo galleries from the Guardian:

Bike infrastructure eye candy: The best cycling infrastructure in cities around the world 

Architectural bike eye candy: Architecture for bikes - in pictures

Solar panels embedded in the cycle path could generate enough electricity to power three houses: World's first solar cycle lane opening in the Netherlands

Finally, a more substantive, and highly recommended article for those interested in creating, or living in, bikeable communities.  Innovation in, lycra out: What Copenhagen can teach us about cycling.  The also contains four short videos - here's one of them:

Episode 07 - Micro Design - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle Culture from Copenhagenize on Vimeo.

It is always inspiring to see such elegant solutions around the world; hopefully enough people ask "why not here?" wherever here happens to be.