ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how alternative modes of transportation, including walking and cycling, which are active and environmentally friendly, require good bikeways and multi-use trails to make them realistic options. As urban areas are often not designed to facilitate walking or biking, we highlight innovative designs for bikeways and multi-use trails that include sustainable materials, roundabouts, and sophisticated infrastructure. Redesigning bikeways and trails to be more functional and motivating can enable people to make healthier choices, and are critical for sustainable, salutogenic, and playable urban environments. In reflecting on how best to design spaces that encourage people to walk, run, cycle, skate, and scoot, we draw inspiration from exemplar projects including the Nelson Street Cycleway in Auckland, New Zealand which uses magenta-coloured pavement and the Lightpath / Te Ara I Whiti, which includes interactive lights along one side to create a distinctive pathway that encourages use. And as a way to make bikeways and trails more sustainable, we look to the unique light-emitting concrete used by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde in the City of Eindhoven to create an artistic and sustainable solar-powered pathway reminiscent of van Gogh's The Starry Night. These projects serve as inspirational examples of redesigning bikeways and multi-use trails to be more remarkable.
