Europe feat bike lanes (even at the airport)

I just got back from a trip to Europe where I spent a lot of time in London with quick visits to Zurich and Dublin. And while I could go on and on about how lovely the streets were because of the smaller cars, on-time buses and plentiful bike lanes, what shocked me the most were the bike lanes at airports.
Can you imagine pulling up to the passenger retrieval area in JFK on your bike? The notion seems ludicrous - in a large part because New York's airports are out on the fringes of the city where biking conditions are particularly dismal. Yet while each of the airports in Europe I visited - Zurich, Dublin, and London City - were similarly distal, they all had clearly market, physically separated bike access.

If NYCDOT maintains the momentum behind bike lane construction we've seen over the past few years, I'm hoping it won't be too long till our bike lane network extends all the way to our national transportation hubs.
Left - a separated bike lane through the arrivals area of the Dublin airport. Right - bike lane parallel to the train tracks accessing London's City Airport.

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