Velostreifen endet im Nichts (Rosengartenstrasse)

Riding north on Rosengartenstrasse, the bike lane just stops. Mid-block, no warning, no arrow, nothing. One moment you have a metre and a half of yellow paint, the next you are sharing a lane with four lanes of traffic doing 50 and a queue of lorries heading for the Hardbrücke.

I measured it on Sunday when it was quiet: the lane ends about 40 metres before the bus stop, exactly where the carriageway narrows. So the design gives up precisely at the point where it would matter most, and everybody has to merge under pressure.

I know the whole Rosengarten story is a political minefield and that nobody wants to touch it before the next big project. But ending a cycle lane in the middle of a block is not a compromise, it is just bad drawing. Either take it through or do not paint it at all — the current version teaches people to trust something that disappears.