Fietspad // A Journey Through the Netherlands Documenting its Bicycle Infrastructure
fietspad, or bike path in English, documents a trip across many parts of the Netherlands to document it’s bicycle infrastructure.
With only a loose plan in place, the intent was to just ride from city to city, stay the odd extra day in some and document what we saw.
It wasn’t a trip just to see the highlights frequently shared on social media, although there are some.
The hope was to document the real bike infrastructure that people use every day, from big cities to smaller towns, urban to rural environments, the good and the bad.
I took photos as we travelled and recorded my thoughts at the end of each day.
fietspad provides over 400 pages of examples, and considers what elements of the bicycle infrastructure I would and wouldn’t bring back to North America, as well as a few we’re not ready for yet.
Cities visited included Utrecht, Gouda, Delft, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Nijmegan, Arnhem, Zwolle, Groningen, Amsterdam, and Zandvoort as well as many places between. fietspad shares what we encountered.
A few example pages are shown below. Each day of the trip is documented with an opening image to set the scene, a narrative of the day, and then more images and descriptions of the bicycle infrastructure we came across. Finally, I was delighted to include a foreword by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to introduce the book.
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