http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: netherlands highway bicycle - Recent Posts en Mon, 18 May 2026 00:28:52 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-312812 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:28:58 +0000 amir 312812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@MV we're doing the Afsluitdijk in September. Fortunately we'd heard about the closure and so have altered our route to allow for the easier crossing. We're coming back on the ferry from Stavoren (hopefully!).<br /> The bus looks much better than the flat bed on the FRB. I rember turning up with a large audax group to be faced with the closure of the bridge. The flatbed turned up, we all looked frightened at the prospect of having the bikes piled up on eachother, and they decided to let us over (given the numbers). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-312808 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:51:09 +0000 paddyirish 312808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@MV- there is a service which I have used any time the bridge is closed, mainly due to wind. If you visit the control tower when coming from the south or ring 08000420188 when coming from the North, a flatbed truck will carry you over the bridge with bikes in the back.</p> <p>It is a really superb service which I am very grateful for. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-312807 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:44:40 +0000 MV 312807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a look at the "fietsbus", it goes once an hour, space for 15 bicycles, <a href="https://frieschdagblad.nl/2019/8/19/in-de-fietsbus-de-afsluitdijk-over-we-stonden-wel-even-voor-een-verrassing">pictures here</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-312806 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:43:39 +0000 MV 312806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought I'd revive this thread for some Dutch bicycle related news:</p> <p>Afsluitdijk closed for cyclists<br /> <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/20/afsluitdijk-closed-cyclists" rel="nofollow">https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/20/afsluitdijk-closed-cyclists</a></p> <p>"<em>The Afsluitdijk is officially closed to cyclists for the next three years. In the coming years, the dyke will be reinforced and its locks and pumps will be renovated, NOS reports.</p> <p>The closure of the bicycle path on the Afsluitdijk, which runs between Den Over in Noord-Holland to Zurich in Friesland, was originally scheduled for April 1st. But after protest, public works department Rijkswaterstaat decided to postpone the closure. Sunday was the last day on which cyclists could use the bike path for the time being.</p> <p>To make sure that cyclists can still get across the Afsluitdijk, the Rijkswaterstaat arranged a special <strong>'Afsluitdijk bicycle bus'</strong> - a bus on which cyclists can take their bikes and ride to the other side.</em>"</p> <p>I'd like to see a bicycle bus on the Forth bridges whenever they're closed to bicycles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-19263 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:33:15 +0000 wee folding bike 19263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well it's a funny thing but the temporary Airdrie- Drumgelloch bus is still running from the train station. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-19262 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:16:01 +0000 kaputnik 19262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> completion of the new £7.3m cycle path in spring 2011</em></p> <p>'nuff said </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-19194 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:58:08 +0000 Arellcat 19194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Ron McAulay continued: 'Completing this line in just four years was a major engineering and project management challenge. To have delivered the railway on time and on budget is a testament to the skill and determination of our team.'"</em></p> <p>So £300m in 2006 prices is £quite a lot in 2010 prices, but even so, on budget is on budget. Maybe Network Rail should've built the trams. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-19111 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:35:51 +0000 kaputnik 19111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>see the number of services from Edinburgh to Glasgow increased to ten every hour.</em></p> <p>Unless it snows, then there's none </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-19110 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:07:14 +0000 chdot 19110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The £300 million Airdrie-Bathgate rail line, due to open tomorrow, will eventually see the number of services from Edinburgh to Glasgow increased to ten every hour."</p> <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Airdrie-to-Bathgate-rail-link.6657611.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Airdrie-to-Bathgate-rail-link.6657611.jp</a></p> <p>"<br /> “However, the severe weather has prevented the completion of some minor station works and left the access roads and platform surfaces at some of the new intermediate stations on the route impassable, with up to three feet of snow blocking access this week.</p> <p>“Consequently the new stations at Armadale, Caldercruix and Drumgelloch will not be brought into use right away but will be opened as soon as possible once the weather improves.<br /> "</p> <p><a href="http://www.airdriebathgateraillink.co.uk/news/new_300m_rail_link_set_to_enter_service_this_sunday_despite_arctic_winter" rel="nofollow">http://www.airdriebathgateraillink.co.uk/news/new_300m_rail_link_set_to_enter_service_this_sunday_despite_arctic_winter</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-18952 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:43:05 +0000 wee folding bike 18952@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The cycle path re-opening had already been postponed till the "spring".</p> <p>I rarely see people using it at any time of year. I used a section on Monday to get round a traffic problem and the snow was pretty deep.</p> <p>They still have a bus service from Airdrie to Drumgelloch so I suspect the trains might be late too.</p> <p>On Tuesday they were still expecting to have some events:</p> <p><a href="http://www.airdriebathgateraillink.co.uk/news/local_events_update/?sid=bb70642a9c7a0b62728dd3820025a76f" rel="nofollow">http://www.airdriebathgateraillink.co.uk/news/local_events_update/?sid=bb70642a9c7a0b62728dd3820025a76f</a></p> <p>I guess it will be the usual local bams getting their photo in the paper. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-18939 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:23:54 +0000 spitfire 18939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah well that's the weather for you eh? Nobody can predict we would ever get winters with temperatures beflow -7 (ever) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-18937 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:20:57 +0000 chdot 18937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I want to cry"</p> <p>I'll laugh instead then!</p> <p>This country and infrastructure. </p> <p>Seem to remember Bathgate - Aidrie railway was supposed to open tomorrow <em>and</em> the new cycle path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-18936 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:12:58 +0000 spitfire 18936@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I want to cry </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1861#post-18933 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:09:32 +0000 Arellcat 18933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From <a href="http://www.fietsfilevrij.nl/fietsnieuws/16_nieuwe_snelfietsroutes_met_subsidie_van_het_rijk.php">Fiets filevrij!</a>, <a href="http://intercityfietser.blogspot.com/2010/11/16-nieuwe-snelfietsroutes.html">Intercityfietser</a>, and nicely summarised by <a href="http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2010/12/sixteen-new-long-distance-cycle-routes.html">David Hembrow</a>:</p> <p><em>"It's just been announced that 16 new long distance inter-city cycle routes will be built across the country with central government support of 21 million euros and local council support making up the rest of the 80 million euro combined cost of the schemes."</em></p> <p>David notes that:</p> <p><em>"It's infrastructure on a country sized scale, not merely a city sized scale. But in the usual Dutch way it's being talked about rather modestly, and has not been the subject of press releases sent all around the world..."</em> </p>