ABSTRACT
Mobile situation: cycling across the road, Aalborg East, Denmark [28 September 2012] An elderly man waits for a break in the flow of fast traffic on a big road. He is on his bike, ready to cross when the opportunity presents itself (see Figure 7.1). It quickly does, as cars are not that numerous on this road and because they come in groups, depending on the traffic signals further west downhill and uphill to the east. This particular place is not a designated crossing and the man is therefore left to his own devices to negotiate his way across the road. In the middle of the road, there is a narrow strip of grass and dirt and a passage through it for turning cars. Here the man can stop and give way to the passing cars. At times in heavy traffic, cars drive by in front of him and behind him, and he waits on the central
reserve to seize the chance to get across. He is on his way to the area around the newly built health-care centre on the opposite side of the road. If he followed the designated bike path, he would have to make a detour of at least 300 metres to go through the tunnel, so he chooses to act against the design scripts of the large road, as do many other local pedestrians and cyclists.
