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Cycle lanes in the Netherlands

12 August 202024 June 2022 Bicycle Dutch

Cycle lanes are a bit special in the Dutch traffic system. On-street cycle lanes do exist in many streets but under the current Dutch traffic safety policies they almost shouldn’t. Paint is generally not seen as infrastructure and that is … Continue reading Cycle lanes in the Netherlands

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Traversing Boxtel on a bicycle

8 May 201821 May 2018 Bicycle Dutch

Recently, I had to cycle all the way through the town of Boxtel, from north to south, on my way to film the fast cycle route between Oirschot and Boxtel. I choose a different route in Boxtel, the fastest and … Continue reading Traversing Boxtel on a bicycle

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Bicycle ride in a smaller town

5 May 201519 May 2015 Bicycle Dutch

Back to a basic type of bicycle infrastructure. After my posts showing exceptional cycle infrastructure in Den Bosch and Naaldwijk, a failed 1990s experiment with a bicycle street, a failed brand new bicycle roundabout and a new cycleway alongside an … Continue reading Bicycle ride in a smaller town

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Transitions

Transitions from one type of infra to the other

11 December 201418 December 2014 Bicycle Dutch

“Occasionally it will be necessary to provide a transition from on-carriageway cycle lanes to off-carriageway cycle tracks and vice versa. This transition should be clear, smooth, safe and comfortable for cyclists. Minimum speed change and vertical and/or horizontal deviation for … Continue reading Transitions from one type of infra to the other

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Mark Wagenbuur in Budapest

Budapest Bike Weekend

27 September 20128 August 2013 Bicycle Dutch

If you follow me on Twitter you know that I was in Budapest last weekend. The Hungarian Cyclists’ Club (Magyar Kerékpárosklub) invited four Dutch experts from different fields of expertise for four bike events, organized in the European Mobility Week. … Continue reading Budapest Bike Weekend

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Fietsenstalling Eindhoven

Cycling in Eindhoven

13 September 201224 April 2014 Bicycle Dutch

A few weeks ago I showed you the new floating roundabout of Eindhoven and it got a lot of attention. But of course a city’s cycling climate cannot be measured by one –albeit very impressive– piece of infrastructure. There has … Continue reading Cycling in Eindhoven

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Cycle infrastructure in ’s-Hertogenbosch

7 January 201211 December 2013 Bicycle Dutch

A short ride in ‘s-Hertogenbosch a.k.a. Den Bosch (Netherlands) on well connected but different types of cycle infrastructure. In this short stretch you can see a cycle lane, a protected (separated) cycle path, a grade separated cycle path/lane, a shared … Continue reading Cycle infrastructure in ’s-Hertogenbosch

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Minor junction with cycling infrastructure

4 January 201211 December 2013 Bicycle Dutch

Junction design is always location specific. Sometimes it can be exceptional depending on what type of streets meet. At this junction in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) two minor distributor streets come together (distributor streets connect through roads and local access streets). These … Continue reading Minor junction with cycling infrastructure

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A secondary cycling route in Utrecht

31 March 201110 September 2019 Bicycle Dutch

Sometimes people think we only show major roads outside the cities’ built up area which makes it ‘logic’ that there is room for wide good quality cycle paths. But people even say that from videos shot in the center of … Continue reading A secondary cycling route in Utrecht

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Bicycle infrastructure in the Netherlands

23 November 201016 September 2015 Bicycle Dutch

Another example of the type of protected separate cycle paths that gets people on their bicycles. Turn on annotations to see familiar and strong views on cycle infrastructure placed in the context of Dutch reality. This video shows that there … Continue reading Bicycle infrastructure in the Netherlands

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Six videos of left turns in the Netherlands

21 September 201016 September 2015 Bicycle Dutch

People always ask how you can turn left while riding a bicycle in the Netherlands. They have difficulties to imagine how that is done with all the separated cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands. But the answer isn’t simple. There are … Continue reading Six videos of left turns in the Netherlands

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Junction design for safer cycling (Netherlands)

7 September 201010 September 2019 Bicycle Dutch

Separate bicycle infrastructure makes traffic safer but only if it is designed right. The Netherlands has the highest percentage of trips made by bicycle and its streets are the safest in the world. It is doing something right. Many years … Continue reading Junction design for safer cycling (Netherlands)

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