Category Archives: The Netherlands

Pining for The Netherlands

Posted on November 27, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Almost by accident, I ended up making three trips to The Netherlands this year. Not going back until next spring at the earliest, I’m starting to get withdrawal symptoms. I’ve consoled myself with this small compilation video, of pictures taken … Continue reading →

Posted in The Netherlands, Town planning, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Assenizing a street in Horsham

Posted on November 10, 2011 by aseasyasriding

New Street is possibly one of the narrowest streets in Horsham. At the location shown in the picture below, the carriageway is 5 metres wide, with pavements of 2 metres and 1.5 metres wide, giving a total width of 8.5 … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Infrastructure, Road safety, Speeding, The Netherlands, Town planning | 13 Comments

Small details

Posted on November 3, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Mark Wagenbuur has published a piece today about Maastricht, with an accompanying video showing a typical journey by bicycle in the city. In response, Paul James observed on twitter that Never realised until Mark’s video of Maastricht – Dutch drains are set … Continue reading →

Posted in The Netherlands, Uncategorized | 14 Comments

What should ‘Going Dutch’ mean?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Matthew Wright’s article in the Guardian yesterday was entitled There’s more to ‘going Dutch’ than having a separate cycling lane To which the obvious, superficial, response is ‘no shit Sherlock’, and the longer, more detailed response would be as follows. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling renaissance, Infrastructure, John Franklin, LCC, London, The Netherlands | 5 Comments

Cycling to the station

Posted on October 19, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Yesterday afternoon I caught a train to Brighton from Three Bridges station, in Crawley. On the platform, I was one of three people with a Brompton. Each and every one of us had, presumably, arrived at the station by bike. … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, Road safety, The Netherlands, Town planning, Uncategorized, West Sussex County Council, WSCC LTP | 12 Comments

The subtle enslavement of parents

Posted on October 4, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Idly thumbing through a local freesheet while on my coffee break this morning, I encountered a news article entitled ‘Dads Sentenced to a Year Behind The Wheel.’ It turned out to refer not to a curious punishment meted out by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Cycling policy, The media, The Netherlands, Uncategorized | 24 Comments

A small slice of the Netherlands, in Horsham

Posted on September 26, 2011 by aseasyasriding

One of the most pleasant streets to cycle on in Horsham is the Causeway. (Photo from geograph.org.uk) It’s a chocolate-box perfect Sussex street, that – despite being very close to the centre of town – has little traffic on it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Horsham, The Netherlands, Town planning, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Rush hour in Groningen

Posted on September 23, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Some bicycle (and pedestrian) chaos for your delectation, taken in yesterday’s rush hour in Groningen – which just happens to be the bicycle capital of the world. This is the north-west corner of Vismarkt. Most of the streets around here … Continue reading →

Posted in The Netherlands | 3 Comments

The extraordinary claims of an anti-infrastructuralist

Posted on August 21, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The homepage of an organization that apparently considers cycle lanes and tracks to be ‘irrelevant.’ Last week, on the website Cyclechat, a contributor by name of Tommi posted a large list of academic papers that showed – or purported to show – … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Europe, Infrastructure, The Netherlands, Uncategorized | 82 Comments

If you needed an indication of how far behind the Netherlands we are…

Posted on July 2, 2011 by aseasyasriding

… this is it. Wolvenstraat, Utrecht – a bicycle-only street. I wonder how long it will be before we see a street like this in Great Britain? We can only dream…

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