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hackneycyclist.bsky.social
Hackney-based. Advocating for cycling that’s as safe, convenient, and comfortable as it is in the Netherlands. I share my own media of Dutch street life, hoping to inspire more liveable communities everywhere.
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Quellijnstraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today

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A service road runs beside a rural Dutch main road. Motor traffic uses the main road; the service road is for slow vehicles, such as tractors, and local access. Cycle lanes prevent overtaking unless the opposite lane is clear, ensuring cyclist safety.

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Haarlemmerdijk, Amsterdam in 1977 and today

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A floating bus stop on a narrow street in the Netherlands. When a bus is serving the bus stop cars have to stop in both directions. Cycles never have to stop.

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Haarlemmerdijk, Amsterdam in 1977 and today

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Frederiksplein, Amsterdam in 1989 and today

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Level cycleway allows loading to take place to shops over the cycle way, whilst keeping people on bikes safe and separated from the lorries making these deliveries

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We’ve literally got cars regularly smashing into pavement infrastructure at high speed outside schools but @hackneycouncil.bsky.social thinks the priority is a message about dangerous cycling. Stop reinforcing this alarmist rubbish and focus on the actual problem.

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Cycle parking on barges on a canal in Amsterdam, directly outside a secondary school. These have now been removed as a new underground bicycle parking facility has since opened right next door

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Elandsgracht, Amsterdam in 1985 and today

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Strange how they didn't feel the need to put one up telling drivers not to speed through the junction whilst on their mobile phone

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Damstraat, Amsterdam in 1984 and today

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I miss what Twitter was. Too much of my adult life - work, friends, partners - has been bound up in it not to. But that Twitter doesn't exist any more. *Twitter* doesn't exist any more, and X is a hellhole and even if I could put up with that it'd suck because most people I want to talk to are here.

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Cycle underpass with cycle parking under Utrecht Lunetten station

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A cycleway through a shopping centre in the Netherlands

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How workers constructing the Glastonbury Festival get around www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/

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Finally, 8 years after it opened they've extended the cycleway on Marshgate Lane but left the old sign up

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Marnixstraat, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. Noy only has all the car parking been removed here but the cars have too. now only accessible for those on foot, bike or on the tram

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Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. No longer is there the space for car parking on this busy city centre street

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Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

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If last year is anything to go by later tonight this space will be filled with hundreds, possibly thousands of lime bikes outside the lido festival in Victoria Park

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Cycle parking alongside a bus stop in the Netherlands

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Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam in 1982 and today. All cars have been removed from this busy square entirely, now only for those on foot, bike or tram with plenty of outdoor dining and eating space

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A cycleway alongside a main road in the Netherlands

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Roggeveenstraat, Amsterdam in 1977 and today. The road has now been closed to motor traffic altogether outside a primary school, with car parking replaced by a playground, greenery and seating which allows kids and parents to safely travel to school and socialise together

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And the England cricket team were on lime bikes nearby

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"The Dutch Approach to Cycling" a new video by @dutchcycling.nl, the Dutch Cycling Embassy. youtu.be/pdsUjjncUp0?...

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Weteringschans, Amsterdam in 1980 and today

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If you design your streets only for fit adult men on racing bikes, don’t be surprised when that’s who shows up. Design for safety and comfort and everyone feels welcome to ride.

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Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam in 1982 and today

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Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1982 and today

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Stadhouderskade, outside Vondelpark in Amsterdam in 1984 and today. From a sea of tarmac to shorter pedestrian crossing points and cycle lanes for cyclists

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Weesperzijde, Amsterdam in 1975 and today

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Safe family cycling in London this morning, thanks to floating bus stops

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Westelijke Toegangsbrug, Amsterdam in 1980 and today

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Oudebrugsteeg, Amsterdam in 1980 and today

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Cycling into and back out of a shopping centre in the Netherlands. Continuous cycle route all the way to the bike parking, right at the entrance to the shops

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Jan Hanzenstraat, Amsterdam in 1974 and today

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