Biking paradise Netherlands is not an accident.

Yesterday, I went to my work @ Maarsen from Houten. It was a nice day so I took the long road (25km). It also took some pictures of that.

What I wanted to point out is that Utrecht is full of roads and intersections and I managed to create a route without having to stop once!

If you have ever been here @ flatland Netherlands you might think it's soo much easier to bike here since it's flat. That's true. But it wouldn't be the same without the infrastructure. In Belgium it's flat too. Yet the biking experience is simply not the same.

Here they have their biking infrastructure build into the system for like a hundred of years. When a new road gets designed or an old one gets renovated, they have to put in bike stuff by design.

And that's what makes the biking experience unique here. There's no biking along the cars that are waiting in traffic jams. And there's no car drivers having to get annoyed at bikers. Because for most of the road, the traffic is separated.

So NOT like this:

Many cities hipe up biking, like Brussels, but are unable to realize the same because the efforts of taking car lanes and putting a bike sign on the road with some marks just ain't good enough!

To make biking infrastructure, it's not enough to put some signs on the road, give bikers some more priorities and pay some PR and wait for people to catch up. No, you have make full blown changes in the design of all roads, separate traffic as much as possible. Everywhere!

If you want to know more about improvements made in biking infrastucture, I recommend this youtube channel.