Billet en français The on-going pandemic still forces me to stay as close to home as possible, which limits my blog post topics. But I do trust many of you will find this interesting: an intersection with separate levels for … Continue reading A grade-separated roundabout in Rosmalen
Another relaxed ride in the town of Boxtel in this week’s blogpost. I showed you an example in that town in an earlier blog post. That was a ride on separated cycleways next to a main road. This post shows … Continue reading Another relaxed Boxtel bike ride
A cycle street and a cycle bridge were festively opened in Utrecht last Friday. They are two important parts of an improved and partly new main cycle route to “Leidsche Rijn”; the residential development in the west of Utrecht that … Continue reading Celebrating a new main cycle route in Utrecht
We humans adapt so well to our environment that we quickly forget how different things sometimes were. In the last five years a lot of the (cycling) infrastructure in my home town of ʼs-Hertogenbosch has changed, changed for the better! … Continue reading Maastrichtseweg 5 years later
Cycling in the newest parts of cities and towns in The Netherlands is almost always very convenient. That is because these areas were designed with cycling in mind from the beginning. This goes further than just designing good streets, distances … Continue reading Main cycle route in a city expansion
To improve traffic situations for pedestrians and people cycling, road managers can decide to build extravagant infrastructure. Most of the time, however, it is much easier and much more effective to relocate motor traffic and to unbundle routes. When motor … Continue reading Road diet XXL for an intersection in Den Bosch
Sports and I are not a great match, to put it very mildly. And it has been like that all my life. To give but one small example: I was always picked last for any team during the sports hour … Continue reading Going for a swim
Something I haven’t written much about yet is the unbundling or unravelling of modes. This is a way of separating cycle routes from main routes for motorised traffic. In the Netherlands it had been common practice to separate people cycling from motorised traffic on road level on all main roads from as early as the 1930s. In more recent years there has been a shift to separating these types of traffic even more: on route level. A lot of roads for motorised traffic have been diverted to go around residential areas especially in the last 10 to 20 years in … Continue reading Unbundling modes
It is a fact that not every street in the Netherlands has separated cycle paths. It is also true that Dutch traffic experts do sometimes say that in road building they only “separate where needed” and “mix where possible”. These two facts combined are cause for one of the great misunderstandings of the Dutch road building system. “Even a Dutch cyclist will have to ride with motorized traffic one time or another, because cycle paths simply can’t go everywhere.” This probably comes right after the great misunderstanding of ‘strict liability’ when that is assumed to ‘magically’ bring road safety to … Continue reading “Separate where needed, mix where possible”
A cyclist in the Netherlands can usually follow a more direct route through cities than motorized traffic can. This so-called ‘unbundling’or sometimes also ‘unravelling’ of modes is one more reason that makes cycling more attractive. In cities and neighborhoods built … Continue reading Direct Cycle Routes in the Netherlands
Two videos to explain why a junction in Utrecht in the Netherlands is such a quiet junction, so pleasant for people cycling. Non-stop relaxed cycling, Utrecht Netherlands A bicycle friendly junction in the historic city center of Utrecht in the … Continue reading A quiet junction in Utrecht (Netherlands)
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