The City of York has an extensive network of cycle routes: York - cycling Some of the routes are good, others simply designate part of the roadway for cycles. Some are so convoluted that they become tedious to use and others are poorly surfaced. On the whole they've been created on the cheap and offer only an impression that the city provides routes for cyclists. When compared to what I've seen in The Hague and Rotterdam in Holland where they have fully segregated cycle paths alongside roads we have a long way to go.