billet en français Imagine the busiest main thoroughfare in your city closed to all traffic for well over 7 hours, including the evening rush hour; would that lead to chaos? This is exactly what happened on Tuesday 7 July on … Continue reading A gas leak on the busiest cycleway in the Netherlands
The city of Utrecht reversed a 50-year-old detour for cycling on a main route in the city centre. For all that time cycling had been diverted around the shortest motorway in the country, that the city had built in the … Continue reading Reversing a 50-year-old cycle detour
A surreal cycle detour, in the depths of the largest shopping mall of the Netherlands, through the underground warehouse area that is normally closed to the public. The city of Utrecht had to be very resourceful to make it possible … Continue reading An ingenious cycle detour in Utrecht
Road works are often a problem for people cycling. Luckily road managers in the Netherlands dislike the “Cyclists Dismount” signs almost as much as people on bicycles do. So, they go out of their way to make it possible for … Continue reading Cycling through a building in Amsterdam
When a viaduct that sees 22,000 cyclists a day has to be replaced by a bridge you have a big task to make a detour for all these people cycling. Utrecht had this big task and did a really good job. This bridge is part of a large project to update the 1970s station area. I’ve shown you some of the works before. Because of the return of the old city moat, the viaduct over the already removed 1970s freeway must become a bridge again. To make demolition and rebuilding possible a new crossing of the building site, about 100 … Continue reading The big detour – Utrecht
