The fast cycle route from ʼs-Hertogenbosch to Waalwijk is part of the elaborate system of (planned) intercity cycling routes in the province of Brabant in the South of the Netherlands. This particular route has been on the wish list and … Continue reading Fast Cycle Route ʼs-Hertogenbosch – Waalwijk
The F28 Fast Cycle Route from Utrecht to Amersfoort is currently under investigation. In today’s post, I will show you what the possible route looks like now. That’s right, I am going to show you the before state of a … Continue reading Future Fast Cycle Route Utrecht – Amersfoort
Even on the opening day of the F59 Fast Cycle Route there was protest. The village council of Geffen stopped the party, literally, at a zebra crossing with a school crossing patrol. After a small delay the festive cycle tour … Continue reading The F59 fast cycle route officially opened
Utrecht has recently upgraded several main cycle routes in the city. In this post I show you the largest part of the route alongside Merwedekanaal. It is part of a much longer provincial route, but in the city it runs … Continue reading Main cycle routes updated in Utrecht
RijnWaalpad is the name of the fast cycle route from the provincial capital Arnhem on the Rhine and the other big city in the province of Gelderland, Nijmegen, on the river Waal. These two cities – that will host the … Continue reading The F325 Fast Cycle Route Arnhem – Nijmegen
The first official fast cycle route in the southern province of Limburg was opened last June when several officials from the province and the two municipalities that the route runs through cycled the entire length of the route with dozens … Continue reading Fast Cycle Route Venlo – Horst-Sevenum opened
F35 is the name of the longest high-speed cycle route that is currently in planning and under construction in the Netherlands. The almost 60 kilometres (37 miles) long cycle route can be found in the east of the country in … Continue reading F35 High-Speed Cycle Route Twente
Copenhagen opened the first ‘Cycle Superhighway’ with a lot of hype last month. I was really looking forward to seeing proper images of it. But I didn’t find any. I think I know why, now that I did. Let’s put it plain and simple, in my opinion this cycle route is not good enough. Newspaper “Politiken” filmed the almost 18 kilometer route and shows it in 5 minutes. In the article “Is Copenhagen’s new cycle highway really super?” their “testcyklist” came to the same conclusion I did: you simply cannot call this a “super highway”. Perhaps if you come from … Continue reading No Copenhagen, that’s not good enough
Last Monday I had a few hours to spare while in London. The perfect opportunity to go and see all the traffic situations I ‘knew’ from following the blogs about cycling in London. The Northern Line turned out to be perfect to get to many of these sites. Starting at Oval I saw “Cycle Superhighway” number 7 on Clapham Road. Two stations to the North I visited the overwhelming Elephant and Castle gyratory. Again two stations to the North I exited at London Bridge and walked to Bank to see the Thames bridge and some of the huge streets there. … Continue reading Seeing how the neighbours do it
A month ago the internet was buzzing with good news: a 20 kilometer (12.5 miles) four lane cycle superhighway in Sweden would connect the cities of Malmö and Lund. It won’t happen soon; development will take at least 8 years, but the news coverage in English makes two things sound very intriguing: “the route will be four lanes wide and feature exits but no intersections”. Wow! That must be so wide and does that mean there will be no level junctions? That would indeed be very special and a world’s first. But if you then look at the number of … Continue reading Cycle highways: Swedish plans vs. Dutch reality
Late 2010 there were reports that the Netherlands is building 16 fast inter-city cycle routes. So what do the already existing bicycle routes between cities and towns look like? This video shows the cycle route between the towns of Culemborg … Continue reading Inter-city cycling Geldermalsen – Culemborg (Netherlands)
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
