Outstanding bike park at Dutch train station
http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2011/04/houten-celebrates-cycling.html
About halfway through the video there is an excellent "stretch bicycle" with about half a dozen band players on it.
Michael
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Permalink Reply by Specialised Roubaix on -
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Not only brilliant infrastructure but it all seemed so peacful and unhurried.
Undercover parking in a well lit clean building for 3000 bikes is amazing.
Thanks for the post
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Permalink Reply by VOD on -
Adelaide has a long way to go, I think public transport needs to be improved and be cost effective compared with running a car before this is likely to occur here.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Murray on -
If you like reading blogs that one is really interesting. An English guy who moved to Holland. The Dutch really think about their cycling infrastructure like running cycle paths along the fronts of houses so cyclists feel safer at night and setting lights on cycle paths so that cyclists get right of way and car drivers have to press a button to make the light change. I wonder if the local mind set will ever change. Perhaps we have to wait for the next big oil crisis.
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Permalink Reply by heather on -
Michael, here in SA they are pushing to put cyclists alongside of a darkened railway line and through industrial sites. Prospect Council has now narrowed Churchill Road, until trucks will pass cyclists by less than one metre on this freight and commuter route. Council says that cyclists can use the Greenway alongside the railway line. Council omits that the Greenway has not been built, the State Government may not build it for another ten years, and there is currently private land blocking the route. I have reminded Prospect Council in vain that cycling alongside the railway line will not get cyclists to destinations on Churchill Road. Also that as a lone female cyclist, I would prefer not to cycle there at night.
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Permalink Reply by Edward @bikeadelaide on -
One of the best blogs around. Interestingly, what got the Dutch Government investing in infrastructure once more in the 1970s was a pressure group called "Stop de Kindermoord" ("Stop the Child Murder"). They were getting tired of children being killed on their way to school. Allowing children to ride safely seems like a great reason for investment in proper infrastructure. Indeed, not just children but everybody.
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