The City of Bend will close the bike lane gap and make it easier for everyone to get through the busy 3rd and Wilson traffic signal. As part of the Wilson Corridor project a protected intersection format will be used. Read more…
These three images show some neighborhood street details. “Gagade” in Danish means “pedestrian street.” it was made at a wide intersection that had 5 approaches – they created a fenced playground in the middle to create a central island, put Read more…
Copenhagen has a 10,000 square meter traffic garden! Trafiklegepladsen Faelledparken! (hint the word “leg” in Danish means Play – think Lego – the Dutch invented Legos!) Kids spend time playing and get to goof off on actual scale versions of Read more…
Planning Cities for People on Bikes – Final Presentations The University of Oregon students in the Sustainable Bicycle Transportation in Denmark and the Netherlands for Summer 2022 course have created a final project based on individual topics they found interesting Read more…
I have gotten better at figuring out Amsterdam’s bike transportation network since I’ve been here 6 days. At first it was pretty confusing as our hostel is in the central part of downtown. But as we’ve ridden around more and Read more…
Triple left turns. Dual right turns. Other than Phoenix, Arizona, I have rarely seen triple lefts. This is a pretty complicated intersection, yet we felt completely comfortable using it. And there were plenty of other folks who we can describe Read more…
Yesterday and today we enjoyed a wonderful outdoor area that gives residents of Amsterdam a place to relax and refresh in a large, open, greenspace that connects many museums. It is called the Museumplein. The museums surrounding this open space, Read more…
Well today we saw our first stop sign. What a bummer. We have ridden hundreds of kilometers in 6 different cities, across two countries. And had not seen a single stop sign.
We met with Chris Bruntlett who is the director of Marketing and Communications for the Dutch Cycling Embassy on Tuesday, July 12. He works with several different organizations here that perform transportation research. He wrote a couple of books, we’ll Read more…