2011 Field Trip

This page is a resource listing all of the photographs, videos and other materials that were gathered during the 2011 Cycling Embassy of Great Britain field trip to the Netherlands.

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Photos

• Field Trip Day 1 – stabiliser’s photo set on flickr

• Study Tour Day 1 – dlarditti’s photo set on flickr

• CEoGB Study Tour day 1 The Cycling Jim’s photo set on flickr

• Field Trip Day 2 – stabiliser’s photo set on flickr

• Study tour Day 2 – dlarditti’s photo set on flickr

• CEoGB Study Tour day 2 The Cycling Jim’s photo set on flickr

• Field Trip Day 3 – stabiliser’s photo set on flickr

• Study Tour Day 3 – dlarditti’s photo set on flickr

• CEoGB Study Tour day 3 The Cycling Jim’s photo set on flickr

• CEoGB Field Trip 2011 Minx2012’s photo set on flickr

• CEoGB Field Trip 2011 – psyklyn’s photomap gallery on Cyclestreets

See also CycleStreets’s gallery of images from 2007 and 2008 – very good clear images of much the same infrastructure as we saw, although some of it has subsequently been upgraded.

Also a slide show put together by Sally Hinchcliffe for Cycling Dumfries (note the correction from David Hembrow in the comments regarding one slide)

Videos

• Disposing of Litter, Dutch Style from thecyclingjim

• Groningen Rush hour from Stabiliser videos

• Groningen Rush hour From Steinsky

• The School Run, Assen from Voleospeed

• School Run, Assen from Steinsky

• Shared Space, Harlan from Steinsky

• Bicycle and foot bridge, Nijmegen from Steinsky

• Utrecht, morning from Steinsky

• Houten School Kids from psyklyn

• Everyday cycling in Houten from psyklyn

Blog posts

• Bike Bingo from Town Mouse

• Cycling Study Tour – Cycling Embassy of Great Britain from David Hembrow

• Cycling in Two National Parks, and a New Embassy rom Vole o’Speed

• To the People of Assen: an Apology from Town Mouse

• Rush Hour in Groningen from As Easy as Riding a Bike

• A Triple Bicycle Bridge in Groningen from David Hembrow

• The Cycle Helmet Show, and How the Dutch Do it from Vole o’Speed

• A Small Slice of the Netherlands in Horsham from As Easy as Riding a Bike

• An Embassy in the Netherlands and an Embassy of the Netherlands from The Lo-Fidelity Bicycle Club

• Second Class Citizen from Town Mouse

• Utrecht, Friday 10am from War on the Motorist

• Resurfacing a canal cycle path in Assen from David Hembrow

Applying it all to the uk?

From As Easy as Riding a Bike

• Cycling to the station

• What should ‘going Dutch’ mean?

• Assenizing a street in Horsham

From War Against the Motorist

• So what would you do here?

• Country lanes

• The village high street

• Rural main roads

• Getting to School in the countryside

From Pedestrianise London

• Avoiding left hooks on cycleways

• Bow Roundabout as a dutch-style turbo roundabout

• Using a yellow flashing arrow phase

GPS Tracks

• Study Tour Day 1

• Study Tour Day 2

• Study Tour Day 3

Other useful links

• LCC Study tour report Lessons from the Netherlands from the LCC visit in 2011

• Sustainable safety wiki

• Sustainably safe roads from Pedestrianise London

• Road signs in the Netherlands

Our thanks go to Hembrow Cycling Holidays for acting as our expert guides throughout the tour, which was funded solely out of the pockets of the participants.