Monthly Archives: April, 2010
Evening Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht
Evening rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle. This is an ordinary Thursday evening … Continue reading
Busy Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands)
Morning rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle! This is an ordinary Wednesday morning … Continue reading
Cycling in Holland – Alkmaar (and surroundings)
This time the cycling really takes place in Holland (which is in the west of the Netherlands). In North-Holland to be precise, in and around the city of Alkmaar. Since … Continue reading
Bicycle Training in the Netherlands
Every year in April some 200,000 school children in the Netherlands take a “Verkeersexamen” (traffic test). The 12 year olds will start secondary school in the following school year. An … Continue reading
Junction with separated cycle path
Some think a separate cycle path can be dangerous at junctions. This video shows a typical junction in the Netherlands with a separate cycle path where cyclists have the right … Continue reading
Where to build cycle tracks and where not
You might think separate cycle paths were created along every Dutch street. But that is not true. Only the through streets have these bike tracks. In most residential areas drivers … Continue reading
Separated cycle path next to dual carriageway
A separated cycle path next to a dual carriage road in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (a.k.a. Den Bosch). You can very clearly see how the (turning) drivers interact with … Continue reading
Separated cycle tracks in the Netherlands
Separation of motorized traffic and cyclists makes cycling safer and more pleasant. In this video an example of an ordinary straight stretch of city street in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch … Continue reading
Roundabout with separated cycle track
To make junctions safer many roundabouts were created. In this video you can see how drivers and cyclists interact on a Dutch roundabout with a separate cycle path. The cyclists … Continue reading
