From www.bikeportland.org today:
The Portland Department of Transportation has plans in the works for its first segregated bike path to be completed in 2010, along a section of road that is being completely reworked. The current plans include a bicycle path separated from the road by a curb, then a planter median between the cycle path [...]
In August I already posted something about this, but I was merely touching on the subject, really.
It’s all true, there are more bikes than people in Amsterdam. The same goes for the whole country. When so many people use their bikes on a daily basis, there’s a great need for facilities. One of which [...]
My older brother Michel lives in Melbourne, Australia. When he’s not working, he spends most of his time training for yet another mind boggling race, such as the Iron Man…yes, he’s a triathlete. Or he rides his off road motorbike around another continent. What I didn’t know when I started Amsterdamize this summer is that [...]
Glenn Billingham, a UK expatriate living in Amsterdam, eloquently and entertainingly writes:
Powered By Our Own Shapely Thighs
The morning gathering took place again.
A Dutch rush-hour is a little different to the other global scenes of 9am and 5pm chaos. New Yorkers hustle and bustle accompanied by a take-out coffee amidst a sea of yellow cabs. City [...]
Today, the ‘Research Trailer Park’ blog posted an article from ‘The State’ newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina:
Bicycle Friendly press conference canceled
A press conference to talk about the city of Columbia’s new designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community has been canceled because of forecasted bad weather this afternoon.
The press conference has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. [...]
I’m taking a trip to Copenhagen between November 6th and November 11th.
Visiting a few friends, exploring the city on my own bike, meeting with iBikeCPH. Hoping for good / reasonable weather and great views :)
I’m staying at the Cab Inn City Hotel on Mitchellsgade 14.
For all the talk about infrastructure, subjective safety, policies, promotion, education, etc etc, you’d almost forget that cycling to and from work is just plain fun. Even a drizzling foggy day is welcome when you step out and hop on to go to the office. Or a client in my case.
It really puts a [...]
Last night Amsterdam opened a few more doors than usual, as the annual Museum Night kicked off. That doesn’t need a whole lot of explaining.
Faithful readers like yourself also don’t have to crunch numbers on what transpires when Amsterdammers need to be on the move in their city. Right. I’ll just keep this post as [...]
Andrew latest post over at Isocrates reminds me I really need to get Amsterdamize ‘biz’ cards printed. So many times I enjoy encounters which, in the end, has me spelling out the name of this blog or writing it down on a piece of paper. It’s ridiculous. And not just because my handwriting is pretty [...]
One way to ‘measure’ a city or country’s bicycle-friendliness is to observe children on bicycles in their natural habitat…which is everywhere. Around the block, going to school, playgrounds and most importantly the roads they share with everybody else to get to their destination. Or at least, it should be everywhere. Is it safe, or is [...]
This is the last post about Mr Freight, for now. You’ll just have to forgive me my childish enthusiasm for my new sturdy steed.
First I had to go to Workcycles shop in the east of town to have the rear rack removed and the smaller front rack put in place, then back downtown to the [...]
So Spartacus got vandalized last night. I had left it parked outside a friend’s house this weekend, in a fine, upscale neighborhood (no irony). My CSI-like scan of the scene this morning quickly established that some perp had stepped into the crate (dirty shoe marks) at the front of the bike and started doing his [...]
Amsterdam is a very dense city, you know that by now. Narrow streets, lots and different modes of traffic and its configuration is a delicate mix of urban and commercial life, with quite a large chunk of leisure purposes.
A highly developed network of public transportation in the form of trams and buses is therefor a [...]
Tomorrow I’m off to Budapest, Hungary, for VlogEurope 2008. A yearly, intimate conference…oh heck, I’ll just call it a get-together of passionate videobloggers (anno 2004) from all over the world, who, at one point or another, connected with each other online and created their own media spheres, where anybody is welcome.
VlogEurope is just one [...]
Today I mentally closed the Summer of 2008 chapter. It has certainly been interesting. A new blog, a new bike, new friends, new connections, park rides and picnics, errands, going out, bike interviews, weekend in Paris, Cycle Chic 24/7, trips, parties, just stepping out, and everything else that involves my trusted 2 wheeled friend.
Because a [...]
Back on the bike. Thursday evenings have longer shop hours. Not in a hurry. Waiting for bridge/bike lane to come down. Lovely Cycle Chic on the phone. Pedal alongside the canals. Westerkerk basks in the sun. Short cuts to avoid most traffic. Oozing into city center. Lock bike. In, purchase, out. Unlock bike. Stop at [...]
From the Seattle Public Library blog ‘Shelf Talk‘:
Part 1: “Tour d’Amsterdam: Biking as a Tourist”
“Biking in Amsterdam is an experience that can be enjoyed by even novice cyclists. On almost all streets and roads, cyclists enjoy an exclusive wide path separated from motor vehicle traffic by a strip of ground, a ditch or high curb. [...]
On average, an Amsterdamize post generates a lot of comments (cheers, I love it). But with popularity come management issues, specifically for the readers. Sure, you can subscribe to Amsterdamize and its comments separately through RSS, but I understand not all of you use that (highly recommended, though, for all your digital life).
I’ve just added [...]
For my 200th post (which this is, yay) I wanted to do something special. Something to celebrate this blog, its readers and viewers and normal cycling in general. Still not feeling well (the after-shocks of a flu), I quickly realized I wouldn’t be able to serve your visual senses with images of joy and hope [...]
Remember all those nice, sunny pictures of normal people in normal clothes on normal bikes on this website? Especially those from last weekend? Yeah? Keep ‘m close, for reference, ’cause it will be long before you’ll see those again. Well…the sunny part, that is.
Today the fall finally got to wash away any hopes for [...]
All good things come to an end, even Cyclemania’s cycling vacation in the Netherlands. We just had a last drink/toast at Cafe ‘t Smalle, after enjoying a beautiful day, zigzagging our way to Workcycles to have their Dutch bikes boxed up for the flight back to Ottawa.
See a few of today’s highlights in the slideshow:
It [...]
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Europe has come down with a case of Mobilitas Humanitas…alright, alright, this week was European Mobility Week. Over here the Dutch coined it ‘Week of Progress‘, promoting alternative and new (future) modes of transportation.
Today is the final, orgasmic and thus most exciting day of these mobilizations, Car-Free [...]
The only sound way to get yourself to any part(y) in this town is…wait for it…by bicycle (doh!). More so, because you just hook up with other fine people, like I did last night, on my way to a housewarming party.
Mutually acquainted with the party’s host, I rode with BicycleMark…yes, HE’S the original cycling [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, after returning from a meeting I sat down on a bench at the Nieuwmarkt square, facing the street. It took me about 30 minutes to shoot 364 pictures of people cycling by. Not that this number is very important, but it only serves as a reminder that it [...]
I’ve mentioned a few times that bicycle theft is quite a problem in the Netherlands, certainly in Amsterdam. The Dutch c.q. Amsterdammers (young and old) have grown accustomed to this pesky ‘little’ problem that has steadily planted itself in the Dutch cyclists’ conscience & social fabric over the last, say, 50 years:
Using beater bikes for [...]
The pouring rain this morning sure got us fooled. By ‘us’ I mean, Helen & Les (read about how they experienced the first day of cycling) and I. Not that a little bit of rain could really spoil anything, but it wasn’t looking very promising. Besides that, I felt like waking up from a coma [...]
After dropping Les & Helen off at their hotel in the Jordaan neighborhood, I pedaled over to my friend Mark’s house to catch up on the latest and ‘watch him eat and fix his toilet’ (sounds like an insider’s joke, but it’s actually true).
His house is basically one big social hub, many people walking in [...]
Every hour or so I scan my feeds that provide me with cycle information on any known or relative subject, including ones that shouldn’t see the light of day. But as with most other things, they do.
Paradoxically, it’s good that it’s above ground, so you can spot it and report about it. Case in point: [...]
…you ride home with friends and turn up the music. Yup, pretty Amsterdamize’d.
Again I’m honored with a new video contribution and further interesting cycling information from Wilma:
“I made another litte movie yesterday; the weather was so pretty, and my old bike has been restored and works perfectly. I filmed my daughter, riding around the neighborhood, and used the footage to illustrate one of my favorite Dutch songs [...]
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