One of the cycle journeys I make every now and then is to a health centre where my family doctor resides. When I had to go there recently, for a simple check, I filmed the ride. This was in the … Continue reading Riding to the doctor’s
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
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
In Dutch road design a street can either be a through street or a street with so-called “end destinations” (homes, businesses) but not both. This way of thinking about mono-purpuse streets was formalized in the ‘Sustainable Safety’ policies, but the … Continue reading Dutch service streets and cycling
As part of an elaborate cycle plan the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch is currently updating its cycling infrastructure. The city wants to raise the modal share of cycling from 33% to 44% of all trips. Some weeks ago I showed you how (also as part of this cycling plan) new red asphalt was rolled out in another street. This blog post wil focus on one of the updates that was also finished. This was a street with a collection of cycle paths and service streets. In the new plan this street had to be updated with the latest minimal requirements to be a real main cycling … Continue reading From cycle path to cycle route
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