Category Archives: The Netherlands

Complacency

Posted on April 24, 2018 by aseasyasriding

The Netherlands is a wonderful country to cycle around, with a dense cycle network made up of motor traffic-free paths, low motor traffic access roads, and protected cycleways, all of which allow you to make door-to-door journeys in complete comfort … Continue reading →

Posted in placefaking, Safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 8 Comments

Getting side roads right

Posted on June 27, 2017 by aseasyasriding

A bit of a picture post this one. Below are twenty photographs of cycleways crossing side roads, all from my week in the Netherlands earlier this month. In order, they are in Delft, Gouda, Den Bosch, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Amsterdam. … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Mini Holland, Priority, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 21 Comments

Negotiating a large Dutch motorway junction

Posted on December 9, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The Dutch are of course famous for their cycling, but this does not mean they don’t build roads. Far from it – the Dutch build roads on a vast scale, and seem just as addicted to it, if not more … Continue reading →

Posted in Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands, Underpass | 12 Comments

The importance of centre line markings on two-way cycleways

Posted on November 25, 2016 by aseasyasriding

As a general rule, cycleways in urban areas in the Netherlands are marked distinctively. If they are two-way, they will have a dashed centre line. If they are one-way, that centre line will obviously be absent. I think this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 23 Comments

Sustainable Safety in action

Posted on November 8, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The N470 is a main road that runs east from the Dutch city of Delft, connecting it with the city of Zoetermeer. It is 12 kilometres long between the junctions with the A13 motorway (bypassing Delft) and the A12 motorway (which … Continue reading →

Posted in Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 20 Comments

The Dutch supermarket

Posted on November 1, 2016 by aseasyasriding

Pedalling into the Dutch city of Delft last Tuesday I went past a branch of Albert Heijn, which is (approximately) the Dutch version of Waitrose – or at least, a supermarket at the slightly higher end of the Dutch price … Continue reading →

Posted in Delft, Infrastructure, Supermarkets, The Netherlands, Town planning | 45 Comments

Why they hate you

Posted on July 28, 2016 by aseasyasriding

A consistent theme that you will encounter in campaigning circles – and indeed amongst the wider public – is that British people ‘hate cyclists’, or ‘hate cycling’. The explanation here must be that there is something genetic, something innate in … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 39 Comments

Going bi-directional

Posted on June 23, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The best of the new cycling infrastructure in London is almost entirely composed of bi-directional cycleways, placed on one side of the road. This includes pretty much the entirety of CS3 and CS6 – the former running from Parliament Square to … Continue reading →

Posted in Department for Transport, Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 41 Comments

A tale of two cities

Posted on May 24, 2016 by aseasyasriding

I was in Leicester last week and (briefly) managed to look again at some of the cycling infrastructure the city has been building recently. There is an impressive-looking cycleway, complete with bus stop bypass, on Welford Road. Like other new … Continue reading →

Posted in Department for Transport, Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 30 Comments

A failure of understanding

Posted on April 8, 2016 by aseasyasriding

As odd as it may seem to British people, surveys of Dutch citizens that ask them why they choose to cycle for the trips they make very rarely find them mentioning ‘cycling infrastructure’ as a reason for doing so – be … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 40 Comments