The organisation promoting cycling for the city of The Hague, Den Haag Fietst, organised a festive Bicycle Lights Parade in the first weekend after the clocks had been turned back to standard time. At the end of Daylight Savings Time … Continue reading Bicycle Lights Parade in The Hague
Another impressive piece of exceptional cycling infrastructure was opened in The Hague. A new 335 metre long cycle bridge connects the city centre with the suburb Ypenburg south-east of the A4 motorway. The alderman for mobility, Robert van Asten, opened … Continue reading A huge new cycle viaduct in The Hague
billet en français The city of The Hague quietly opened the second largest bicycle parking facility in the Netherlands earlier today together with the Dutch Railways. The garage, at the city’s Central Station, has room to park about 8,500 bicycles … Continue reading A huge new bicycle parking garage in The Hague
It is never fun to discover that your train service is suspended due to upgrading works and you will have to use a bus instead. I hate being on a bus. So when I recently had to go to Delft … Continue reading Riding from Delft to The Hague in the dark
Recently I cycled to the sea side resort and former fishing town of Scheveningen (now part of The Hague) and I noticed the road to the beach had completely changed since my last ride there several years ago. On my … Continue reading Cycling from Scheveningen to The Hague
The Hague was the second Dutch city to (partly) open a so-called Demonstration Cycle Route in September 1977. What has become of that route and what have we learned? Continue reading The Demonstration Cycle Route in The Hague
People cycling near the central station of The Hague in the afternoon rush hour, that is the theme of this week’s post. When I was early for an evening meeting* in the city last week, I had half an hour … Continue reading Cycling in The Hague
Two weeks ago I showed you a huge junction in The Hague, which was actually only one junction in a much longer route. This week I’d like to show you the rest of the route I cycled in The Hague to visit my uncle in a home for the elderly. It was the first time for me that I went to this place. So, for this unknown ride, I planned a route in the Cyclists’ Union Route planner from The Hague Central Station where I arrived by train from my home town and where I would rent a Public Transport-Bicycle … Continue reading Riding in The Hague
“This really looks a lot like Elephant & Castle” is what I thought when I was cycling in The Hague on the last Sunday of 2012. If “Elephant & Castle” doesn’t ring a bell: it is a major intersection in … Continue reading An ‘Elephant & Castle’ in the Netherlands
The North Sea coast in the Netherlands is a beautiful area for recreation, especially for cycling. The entire coastline consists of sandy beaches. Between those beaches and the better known Dutch green landscape we find a line of sand dunes, sometimes several kilometers wide. Together the dunes and sandy beaches form a landscape that is unlike any other in the Netherlands. Most of the area is only accessible on foot or by bicycle. The dunes form a barrier to the sea and protect the land behind it that is often a lot lower than sea level. The first barrier dunes … Continue reading Cycling along the sandy beaches of the North Sea
A tiny article can tell tales. In the Indian Express (Sunday edition for Pune*) tucked away on page 7, the following appeared recently: So what will the perplexed honorable judge find in The Hague? A city that has been criticized … Continue reading Judge + bicycle = Culture Shock
One of my readers drew our attention to a video that shows a cycle route in Rijswijk which is in effect a suburb of The Hague. It shows a road where cyclists have to make a detour while motorised traffic can go straight on. The man in the video calls this a daily annoyance. And he is right. Most cycle routes in this country are as direct or (more often) more direct than routes for motorised traffic. In this case (see picture below) the green line (about 100 meters/yards) would be the logical route. There is ample room for a … Continue reading The importance of direct cycle routes
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