The province of Noord-Brabant and the municipalities of Zaltbommel, Maasdriel and ‘s-Hertogenbosch are constructing a main cycle route; the future F2. The parts shown in this short video have already been finished.
Britain forever stuck in the car era. I’ve basically given up hope. People here are just too stupid to demand change, or vote for change, or even understand why we would want infrastructure like this to be developed.
Makes me want to get a camera, and ride from Stockholm to Uppsala or Södertälje. Our commuter rail reaches those cities, but gods damn getting there by bike is not nice.
There is such a fast cycle path between Nijmegen and Arnhem, it's nice and even has coloured streetlights, showing different colours depending on if you go north or south. But i don't like that they named it "fast" because due to property rights and what (farm-)land they could buy to put the route on, it has a huge amount of sharp ninety degree turns in the route near my village (Bemmel). Which is horrible when riding fast, you need to brake heavily and pull up to speed each and every time. So i tend to avoid that piece of the path.
Did you know this is constructed on the old highway route from Amsterdam to Maastricht? Now the A2 (name of the highway) goes around Den Bosch ('s-Hertogenbosch), but it used to go trough the city. You can still see the viaducts for a 2×2 lane highway.
The neighbours in Flanders (Belgium) are now also constructing interurban longer distance ‘cycle highways’. A bit less grand then the Dutch version, but still a huge improvement as compared to previously existing cycle infrastructure that was narrow and ‘roadside’.
Observe how the Dutch also created a whole cycle signposting network (dark red on white) showing the way on these cycle highways. It is the same when cycle infrastructure meets car infrastructure : the separate and logical style throughout the whole country prevents car drivers from being confused by cyclists signposts and vice versa.
It does not stop at the infrastructure you see in this clip : at major interchanges with other cycle highways, often close to the interchanges for major roads for cars, the cycle interchange is sometimes built over or under the car infrastructure, completely eliminating conflict points with cars, using a set of tunnels or bridges just for cycles.
Not that often, but it can snow in the Netherlands. Removing the snow and applying salt or other means to prevent surfaces to be slippery is not just to be done on roads used by cars. So the country makes sure they have appropriate equipment adapted to run on these narrower cycle highways to treat them on the snowy days. So they are neatly maintained at least to the same level the roads for cars are maintained.
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Of course I'd cycle there ☺️.
I’d 100% cycle here, the bike path is top notch, the crème of the crème when it comes to Dutch cycling infrastructure.
Britain forever stuck in the car era. I’ve basically given up hope. People here are just too stupid to demand change, or vote for change, or even understand why we would want infrastructure like this to be developed.
Wow. That looks amazing.
Red Asphalt
Time to set a speed limit on bicycle's, before you know it, they are faster then cars.
Would I cycle there? Hell, I would live there if I could!
Makes me want to get a camera, and ride from Stockholm to Uppsala or Södertälje. Our commuter rail reaches those cities, but gods damn getting there by bike is not nice.
Yes I want to bike there😅
I wouldn't mind cycling there, but I would prefer if here was at least 50% as good.
that smooth red asphalt is so satisfying
Oh la la, stampen op die pedalen!
I'm crying because this looks so nice and I will most likely never get something like this in my country.
There is such a fast cycle path between Nijmegen and Arnhem, it's nice and even has coloured streetlights, showing different colours depending on if you go north or south.
But i don't like that they named it "fast" because due to property rights and what (farm-)land they could buy to put the route on, it has a huge amount of sharp ninety degree turns in the route near my village (Bemmel). Which is horrible when riding fast, you need to brake heavily and pull up to speed each and every time. So i tend to avoid that piece of the path.
I could only of dream of that by me
Smoothhh
Did you know this is constructed on the old highway route from Amsterdam to Maastricht? Now the A2 (name of the highway) goes around Den Bosch ('s-Hertogenbosch), but it used to go trough the city. You can still see the viaducts for a 2×2 lane highway.
The neighbours in Flanders (Belgium) are now also constructing interurban longer distance ‘cycle highways’. A bit less grand then the Dutch version, but still a huge improvement as compared to previously existing cycle infrastructure that was narrow and ‘roadside’.
Observe how the Dutch also created a whole cycle signposting network (dark red on white) showing the way on these cycle highways. It is the same when cycle infrastructure meets car infrastructure : the separate and logical style throughout the whole country prevents car drivers from being confused by cyclists signposts and vice versa.
It does not stop at the infrastructure you see in this clip : at major interchanges with other cycle highways, often close to the interchanges for major roads for cars, the cycle interchange is sometimes built over or under the car infrastructure, completely eliminating conflict points with cars, using a set of tunnels or bridges just for cycles.
Not that often, but it can snow in the Netherlands. Removing the snow and applying salt or other means to prevent surfaces to be slippery is not just to be done on roads used by cars. So the country makes sure they have appropriate equipment adapted to run on these narrower cycle highways to treat them on the snowy days. So they are neatly maintained at least to the same level the roads for cars are maintained.