Ouch, I wouldn’t want to bike down that on a busy afternoon.
My US city has been buying abandoned rail lines and creating biking/walking path instead. I like being away from the streets. Some streets have a barrier that protects the bike lanes and I prefer those with my kids in tow.
While those are nice places to ride I still oppose such things because those paths are lost to useful transit forever and cities need long cooridores for transit
Not forever. Keeping them as public paths retains the option. Selling them off and building over them would definitely make it impossible to reinstate.
The option is not retained - you will never convince bicycles to give up a path they like once they have it. Thus it becomes politically impossible to reinstate it.
My US city has been buying abandoned rail lines and creating biking/walking path instead. I like being away from the streets. Some streets have a barrier that protects the bike lanes and I prefer those with my kids in tow.
Abandoned industrial rail line:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PiLfp1DkE3By4gkL7