Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 24th November 2016

This weeks' Good Facility is an example of the kind of bread-and-butter treatment that is found at busy junctions in the Netherlands - signal-separated crossings on all arms of the junction for people cycling.

This large junction in Gouda is designed so that nobody cycling has to deal with motor traffic, at all - the junction has physical separation, with cycle-specific crossings on all sides. Some sides of the junction have additional bi-directional crossings, to make it easier for people to use the junction. All right turns are 'free', allowing people to bypass the signals entirely at all times.

It is this kind of design that allows anyone to cycle, young or old, fast or slow, and explains the ubiquity of cycling in the Netherlands.