yeah i love dutch bikes! i cant understand why we have a monopoly of mountain bike stuyles, with the straight handle bars. riding a dutch bike is so comfortable! i hired a birght orange one in utrecht, and it was too cool for school. cycling with a straight back is bliss.
cyclists in this country are just left to sit in traffic with tvery little provision of their own, and what little does exist tends to be a spinoff of other traffic management techniques eg: turning a street one way, means you can put a cycle lane going the other way down it, or putting cycle lanes is probably an offshoot of trying to narrow the road space to decrease overall speeds. theres little coherent cycle planning, although again, most of what exists is in london. we are just not a cycling culture, and im not sure to what extent that blaming hills and rain is really on the money. i think its attitudes of all concerned that could change thigns - committment from Local authorities to cycle planning and mature attitudes from cyclists and motorists.
but in london, well even the pedestrians use roads appallingly! wandering into the road without looking at anything, and i am NOT talking about tourists, who londoners blame for all ills of this kind. you can coming down a cycle lane and see a pedestrian about to step off the pavement into your path, actualyl staring right at you, but they just arent taking in the fact that you are a vehicle on the road.
cyclists in this country are just left to sit in traffic with tvery little provision of their own, and what little does exist tends to be a spinoff of other traffic management techniques eg: turning a street one way, means you can put a cycle lane going the other way down it, or putting cycle lanes is probably an offshoot of trying to narrow the road space to decrease overall speeds. theres little coherent cycle planning, although again, most of what exists is in london. we are just not a cycling culture, and im not sure to what extent that blaming hills and rain is really on the money. i think its attitudes of all concerned that could change thigns - committment from Local authorities to cycle planning and mature attitudes from cyclists and motorists.
but in london, well even the pedestrians use roads appallingly! wandering into the road without looking at anything, and i am NOT talking about tourists, who londoners blame for all ills of this kind. you can coming down a cycle lane and see a pedestrian about to step off the pavement into your path, actualyl staring right at you, but they just arent taking in the fact that you are a vehicle on the road.
